Welcome to Writing Hacks!
Writing Hacks is a newsletter with advice to help you write more efficiently and effectively at work—one “hack” at a time. In each newsletter, I focus on just one strategy or topic with the goal of helping you make incremental changes to your writing that will stick.
I’m Jane Rosenzweig, and I’ve been a writer, an editor, and a writing teacher for more than 20 years. My day job is teaching writing and training writing tutors at Harvard. I’ve also taught writing to employees at companies and non-profits, where I’ve had the chance to learn about writing in different fields and for different kinds of managers. You can read my recent writing advice in the New York Times and the Harvard Business Review and follow me on Twitter for updates.
Writing Hacks is for you if you have to write at work and you’d like to be able to do it more effectively and efficiently. Writing Hacks is for you if you’ve ever been told that your writing should be clearer. Or that you should get to the point. Or that your ideas need to be more organized. Or that you need to write faster, more carefully, better. Nobody sits down in front of the computer and says, “Hey, I think I’ll write a totally disorganized, hard to understand document that never gets to the point and then turn it in late.” If you knew how to improve your writing, you would have done it already. The fact is that it’s hard to change your writing, and it’s hard to get motivated.
In the near future, paid subscribers will receive weekly newsletters, along with access to the archives and the opportunity to join discussions with other writers—and with me. I’ll also offer periodic writing challenges that we will discuss and share.
