Newsletter Issue
Develops one idea, since a roundup teaches readers to skim and then to stop opening.
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Running it, start to finish
- State the single idea in one sentence before writing.
- Open in the middle of something concrete.
- Cut the warm-up and write the subject line from the finished piece.
What you get back
The output this produces, every time.
- Tests whether there is genuinely one idea before writing.
- Opens in the middle of something rather than with a greeting or housekeeping.
- Requires a concrete particular, without which the issue is forgettable.
Getting better results
Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.
- Cut the warm-up paragraph. Nearly every issue has one near the start. It is the writer arriving at the point, and the reader does not need it.
- Do not pad to a usual length. A short issue with something in it outperforms a long one without, and padding is visible to readers.
- Write the subject line last. From what the issue actually says. Written first, it promises something the issue then has to live up to.
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