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Let's talk about your writing challenges

I’d love to start a discussion with you all. I want to know more about who you are, what you write, where your struggles lie, and what you want to learn.

So, in the spirit of learning to communicate better, tell me about your writing challenges. They can be related to anything from workplace communication to blogging to fiction writing—all writing comes down to communicating ideas.

Here are a few questions to get you started. You can pick one or even several to answer in a comment.

• What’s something you’re never sure you’re doing correctly when you write?

• Do you have any writing-related questions in your Google search history? What are they?

• What kind of writing do you always dread whenever you have to do it?

• Have you ever written an email or social media post that was misunderstood or misconstrued? Tell me more.

Feel free to color outside the lines and ask your own questions, too. Or just tell me a little about who you are, why you write, and what you write about.

My goal is to make Help Me Write Better more of a coffeehouse chat than a TED Talk, and I can’t do that without input from you!