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My Advice on Writing 2025
For people reading this, I want to explain my writing ground and experience and, in part, writing advice for any people interested in writing as a career as a copywriter, magazine writer, authorship and other writing forms relevant to the industry.
I began writing seriously from 2014 to 2018 at the University of Hull, where I completed my Politics and International Relations Degree; during that period, I learned critical thinking, research skills, and independent thinking, which can be more complicated than you can think.
It means letting go of one’s ego and learning to unlearn the nonsense drummed into and heard from mainstream culture, which is very generic and something that people accept.
Also, we tend to be naive when young because we don’t know much.
You can have some academic knowledge but not knowledge of human nature, and when it comes to understanding life, it just takes time to get more of both.
Reading and learning from people in their 70s or 80s, like Jarard Dimond and David Starkey, can be useful because they have lived their whole lives.
(YOU DO NOT NEED TO GO TO UNIVERSITY TO LEARN THOSE SKILLS, BUT IT DOES HELP)
I recommend developing critical thinking and independent learning skills if you wish to be a writer, either as a freelancer or within employment, or to improve your writing craft.
If you are writing for yourself, my advice is to learn to unlearn bad habits you may…