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The One Truth to Great Writing Every Writer Must Know

We all want to relate to being human

Emmanuel A. Anderson
4 min readApr 2, 2021

Have you ever read articles or books where the writer sounded holy and you, the reader, the sinner? How did you feel when you read things that people have written and what they were talking about was all you and nothing about them? And in it, they made you feel you were the wrong one, and they were the righteous ones who didn’t need to correct any wrong in their lives? How did you think? Were you bored or happy? Did you even spend time to finish the piece, or you left it?

As you’re answering the questions in your mind, readers also lookout for these things when reading your works. The reason is that we all want to relate to being human, and if in your writing you cannot make the readers feel this way, you’re doing not only yourself a disservice but your readers, too.

We all want to relate to being human

Life, on the part of nature, is perfect. On our part as human beings, it’s not. Every one of us is one way, or the other imperfect. When you write, and you cannot let the readers see the flawed side of you and how you’re also struggling to get things right in your life but make your writings all about them and their imperfections, they become bored and wouldn’t like to have anything to do with…

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Emmanuel A. Anderson
Emmanuel A. Anderson

Written by Emmanuel A. Anderson

Thinker || Writing to give meaning to life || Author of the upcoming book, "Heal yourself, Heal the world."

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