Hello everyone! My name is Emily, and I am excited to join the group! I am writing from Colorado, where I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 2022. I currently work in the legal sector, but I am looking to switch things up and pursue my passions through a writing career. I am here to enhance my writing and to chat with people who share my passion. Nice to meet you all!

Hi All. I used to work with Shani many years ago. I’m really interested in all kinds of writing. Today as well as working as a medical journalist and editor, I also write fiction and occasionally dabble in creative non-fiction. Always looking to improve my writing and keen for any tips!

Welcome to the Elite Writing Academy! My name is Shani Raja. I'm a former Wall Street Journal editor, and I'll be teaching you how to write with impeccable style and flair. In this community, you'll experience rapid growth in refining your writing capabilities alongside others. Inside the classroom, you'll have access to all of my flagship writing programs that have transformed the way many of my clients and students write. Below this post, I'd love for you to introduce yourself to the community and me. Feel free to share where you're from, what you're working on, and your goals inside the Elite Writing Academy! You can even attach a photo of yourself or your workspace! Complete these 3 steps to get started within the Elite Writing Academy! 1️⃣ Introduce yourself in the comments below! (You can see my example in the comments). 2️⃣ Comment on someone else's post! 3️⃣ Head over to the Elite Writing Classroom and start your first training module. My goal with the Elite Writing Academy is to grow the world's #1 writing community, full of valuable resources and writers ranging from beginners to industry leaders. Tip: Download the Skool app to your phone and pin this community to the top to avoid missing updates. By engaging with this community, you unlock more bonuses and materials. Let's keep the community insightful. If you have any questions, insights, strategies, or learnings you'd like to share with the community, create a post! Welcome again, my friend. I'm looking forward to seeing you around the community! ✌️

A warm welcome back to @Immaculate Tushabe! It's great to see you here in the community. Would you like to share with us why you want to improve your writing?

During my years writing and editing for The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Bloomberg News, I tried to understand what the best editors I worked with were doing. Five habits of mind emerged from observing them and practicing the craft myself. They underpin what I teach in A Crash Course in Writing Well. Each habit begins with an aspiration. You may hear echoes of the following five aspirations in some of your favorite essays, speeches, op-eds, and nonfiction. 1. Comprehensible They strive to make the writing easy to understand. This means removing unnecessary complexity and making sure readers can follow the reasoning without having to work too hard. Simplicity and clarity are essential here. 2. Authentic They strive to make the writing sound honest. They remove jargon, pretentious language, and artificial posturing while preserving the writer’s personality and distinctive way of expressing ideas. 3. Beautiful They strive to make the writing flow well. They smooth out the rhythm and improve structure. This is the quality I call elegance. 4. Engaging They strive to make the writing hold attention and evoke a response. They use colorful details, vivid language, and well-chosen examples to help readers feel the significance of what they are reading. This is where evocativeness matters. 5. Effective They strive to make the writing achieve the purpose for which it was written. Whether the aim is to inform, persuade, teach, or inspire, every passage should contribute. Even a beautiful sentence may need to go if it distracts from that purpose. Through practice, these five aspirations — comprehensibility, authenticity, beauty, engagement, and effectiveness — become editorial habits. They are the gold standard I absorbed from exceptional editors who were unwilling to stop at prose that was merely serviceable.