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Maximizing Your Writing Strengths

We humans tend to compare our greatest weaknesses with the greatest strengths of others. In so doing, we almost always feel that we come up short.

We writers do the same thing with our writing. Instead of focusing on what we write best, we look over the fence and want to write what our neighbor writer is writing and in the same way she is writing it.

One of the keys of writing success is to evaluate your writing strengths and weaknesses. One is gifted to write poetry; another is gifted to write columns. One writes great fiction, while another writes fantastic devotionals. One stands out in writing essays; another excels in writing crossword puzzles.

What are your writing strengths and weaknesses? If you don't know, take the time to find out. Ask yourself the following questions:

1) What kind of writing do I prefer to do?

2) What kind of writing do I do best?

3) What kind of writing comes most easily to me?

4) What pieces of my writing draw the most positive feedback?

5) What kind of writing gives me the greatest joy in the doing?

Answering these questions honestly will help you to maximize your writing strengths and keep you from thinking the grass is greener in your writing neighbor's yard.

And that's my "musing that matters" for today. What's yours? :)

Blessings,

MaryAnn

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