Bullets
A bullet is a dot or star or asterisk. (See Chapter 10.) You can use
bullets anywhere, anytime, and they will always work. They are a
way to list ideas or key points. Readers love ’em!Quotes
Readers love quotes. Put something in quotation marks and it’ll be
read before anything else. Why? Because people are interested in
people. They want to know what was said, not what you want to
say. As Horace said, “The musician who always plays on the same
string is laughed at.” (Think about it.)Little Paragraphs
Break up your paragraphs into one or two lines each. Stagger their
length so they don’t become predictable. Which would you read
first: a letter single-spaced with a two-line first paragraph, a three-
line second one, a one-line third one, and so on?
Take a look at the following letters and tell me which is easier to
read (they are the same letter):Example One
How many times have you read a memo and then called the
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