However, in Jane’s first year, she unwittingly deleted a company project when her computer crashed. Both have a steady employment record, though Jane has been the highest performer in her department during her tenure. “Imagine you are considering either John or Jane, two employees at your company, for a promotion. It’s basically memorable moments that are made influence our decisions in ways that they shouldn’t. The availability heuristicĪccording to the Decision Lab, the availability heuristic is a bias that “describes our tendency to use information that comes to mind quickly and easily when making decisions about the future.” Let’s check out these effects by analyzing ten cognitive biases that shape our world today.” Well, because as Sid says, “Being aware of our cognitive biases helps to recognize their power in shaping our thoughts, opinions, attitudes and the decisions we make. Sid got me thinking about all the ways we make decisions based on wrong assumptions or biases.Īnd I just wanted to talk about the first two this week and maybe make this a series. There’s this guy named Sid who wrote about cognitive biases over on Medium. It’s basically like a blog, but better.ĭownload file | Play in new window | Duration: 00:16:55 | Recorded on June 14, 2022 The music you hear is made available through the creative commons and it’s a bit of a shortened track from the fantastic Mr.ruiz and the track is Arctic Air and the album is Winter Haze Summer Daze.įor exclusive paid content, check out Carrie’s substack, LIVING HAPPY and WRITE BETTER NOW. Even a dollar inspires a happy dance in us, so thank you for your support. These podcasts and more writing tips are at Carrie’s website, carriejonesbooks.blog. Hey, thanks for listening to Write Better Now. Exercise in Writing With Specific Details. “Specificity in Writing.” ThoughtCo, Aug.
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Don’t just say, “He sat under a tree.” Say, “He folded his legs beneath him, leaning on the gnarled trunk of the willow, its bark rough against the skin of his back, the tendrils flitting down-a perfect place to rest or maybe to hide.” Remember to describe people and setting and action in a way that your reader can imagine.Be super specific and concrete like I just mentioned.Let the reader smell diesel if the scene is on the side of the highway, taste the bitter coffee in the coffee shop, etc. Use the senses-hearing, sight, touch, smell, taste.Making the initial sentence abstract and the remainder of the sentences in a paragraph concrete.There’s a great quick MasterClass blog post that tells writers four ways to add those concrete details to our narratives.
Rather than ‘We were affected by the news,’ write ‘We were relieved by the news’ or ‘We were devastated by the news.’ Use words that convey precisely and vividly what you are thinking or feeling. Compare ‘Cutting down all those beautiful old trees really changed the appearance of the landscape’ with ‘In two weeks, the loggers transformed a ten thousand-acre forest of old growth red and white pine into a field of ruts and stubble.’ Here, take this example:Ĭan you think of ways to make that more specific?Ī smile slowly formed on Shaun’s ruddy face, lifting the corners of his eyes with the movement. “You are more likely to make a definite impression on your reader if you use specific, rather than abstract, words. “ Specific details create word pictures that can make your writing easier to understand and more interesting to read.”Īnd we want readers to understand the world that we’re building on the page and be interested in it. The thoughtco article by Richard Nordquist says it well.
We do this not to be annoying (well, most of us), but because it’s important. SHOW MORE DETAILS! Every writing person ever Showing details in your writing isn’t just some annoying comment that agents, editors, and writing coaches and teachers paste into every student’s work.īig red letters. Subscribe: Amazon | Anchor | Apple Podcasts | Google Play | RSS | Spotify | Stitcher | YouTube
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