How to Improve Your Writing Without Trying to Sound Too Smart
- August 25, 2026
- by
- Biswajit Mohanty
I made this mistake when I started writing professionally.
I wanted my writing to sound mature.
So I used bigger words.
I made sentences longer than they needed to be.
Sometimes, I would choose a complicated word when a simple one would have worked perfectly well.
At the time, I thought I was becoming a better writer.
I wasn’t.
I was simply making my writing harder to read.
It took me a few months of professional writing to understand that.
And honestly, it was one of the most useful lessons of my early career.
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