Become A Copycat

Everyone wants to be an original. But everyone has favourites whose style they would like to emulate while creating original works.

Here's a writing exercise:

• Pick a book or author that you aspire to write like.

• Copy a page of their work, word for word

• Follow up by moving into your writing

This exercise is called Copywork. Here's what happened to one person who tried to emulate Seth Godin's style of writing.

Besides writing, where else can you use copywork?

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