Write When You Are Feeling Good- Never When You’re Tired
The tone of any particular piece of writing comes across as clearly as the nose on your face. Many times that I read a CV that has been written by someone who is fearful, I can tell immediately. The tone of writing comes across very quickly and turns off the reader so quickly that the CV gets rejected almost immediately even though nothing else is actually wrong with the document
You cannot help the way you feel about an event that is going on in your life. Feelings of desperation, despair, loneliness, etc. find a way of getting in to your subconscious mind and this definitely transmits through to the things you say and write about. One of the first things to do to resolve this issue is to understand it in the first place. Once you understand that your feelings definitely transmit into writing, you can start to do something about it
Just the simple fact of understanding that your feelings affect the way you come across in writing can help you get the results that you desire from your writing. For example, if you are at your best first thing in the morning, clearly it makes sense to write then. We all have some degree of flexibility in our schedule and choosing to write at the time when we are at our best and perhaps just planning when we are not so good
If you are feeling good about yourself, it definitely comes over in your writing. If you are feeling at your best, it is definitely the best time to write something like a sales letter, CV, a letter asking for a raise, etc. Just be aware of your mood and for goodness sake, monitor your writing to see if you actually are projecting the emotions that you want our reader to perceive
Never write when you are feeling tired. If you want to be sure to turn off your reader, make sure you write when tired. You will end up using language that turns the reader off, not on and you may as well not bother in the first place.
Put something of you into every piece of writing that you attempt. I’m not saying that you need blood dripping out from you forehead as evidence of your intensity but put something real into your writing. Great writers are not scared of inducing powerful emotions in the reader. Whether that is love, passion, belief or any other emotion,make sure that the reader is moved in some way- even if it is anger
Great results come from taking risks. Mediocre results come from mediocre writing. If you cannot evoke powerful feelings in your reader, you are largely wasting your time. This is particularly true when writing something as important as your CV or resume or an important sales letter. Give the writing the importance it deserves and you will get better results than you could ever imagine
