Find a mentor

If you want to get good at anything, find a mentor. The good news is mentors are everywhere.

And. Your mentor need not know you exist. Nor be alive.

Seth Godin is my favorite writer. He has no idea who I am. Still, I consider him a mentor. He talks to me every day in his blog.

Same with Hemingway, the king of concise. Except he talks to me through his books.

I have notebooks filled with handwritten quotes from these writers. As I write the words, I pay close attention to word choice, musicality, and how they can pack so much meaning in so few words.

Find a mentor.