CraftNo. 77

You

By addressing your readers one-to-one, you transform your generic broadcast into a personal appeal. It’s disarming, direct and arrests attention. Go one step further and insert yourself into the copy. Make it a conversation between the reader and the writer. And use the word ‘you’ liberally.

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Rewrite your opening paragraph so "you" appears in the first sentence.

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