Does being a good writer make you a good person?
A Harvard Business Review writer argues that how one writes can reflect on his or her character. Plus, the essential writers and how to answer questions about your writing role.
Want to be a good writer? Work on your personal credibility, read good writers (including Charles Bukowski) and listen to what others are asking you.
Better person, better writer:â¯â¯Even if writing isn’t your full time gig, the way you write and your attention to detail says a lot about you as an individual. That’s what Barbara Wallraff writes in theâ¯Harvard Business Review. She lists several dos and don’ts to add integrity to your writing and project a person that can be trusted. The most valuable of these might be “obsess over your credibility.”
Writing well is a learned skill; it isn’t the same as being a considerate, interesting, admirable person. But if you do your best to be considerate and interesting and admirable — or whatever else particularly matters to you — no doubt you will have an advantage in the writing department over the thoughtless, the dull, and the contemptible.
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