Flawless Formatting: A Step-By-Step Guide To Make Anything You Write Easy To Read (And Skimmable)

Formatting is the easiest 10x you can make in your writing.

In the writing world, almost all of the focus gets placed on the words themselves. “What are you saying? What’s the idea? How beautiful is the language? Are the commas in the right places? Does the sentence flow? Should you use this adjective or that adjective?”

And yes, while all of these things matter (quite a bit), writers often forget that the way their words LOOK on the page drastically changes the way readers read and consume their work. In fact, the way your words LOOK on the page is usually what determines whether or not readers will take the time to read what you’ve written at all.

Formatting matters.

The reason we say formatting is the easiest 10x you can make in your writing is because learning how to define your niche, for example, is something that takes weeks or even months. And mastering the art of languaging and sentence flow can take years. But formatting, and learning how to make your writing more skimmable is something that can take all of 10 minutes.

Which is the goal in this Deep Dive.

So, to give you a sense of exactly how to do this on your own, we’re going to walk through an essay together (without changing any of the words themselves — only the formatting) utilizing all the different formatting techniques we teach within Ship 30 for 30…