Courtesy our favorite bike-riding pie-baking Cleveland-originating dance-loathing Chatwin-loving architecture writer William Bostwick, writing over at core77, How (Not) To Write Like a Designer: 5 tricks you didn’t learn in studio. Confusing capitalization aside, it’s an absolutely necessary piece of written reading for people who want to learn how to write good and do other stuff good too.

Bostwick’s five tricks:

1. Use your skills. 2. Kill jargon. (ed: Faster! Faster! Kill! Kill! Kill!) 3. Tell a story. 4. Don’t be afraid to put yourself into your writing. 5. Finally, and most importantly, don’t say too much.

OK, hold on, we’re gearing up to give our own drivel a look. For 1: Fast and loose typing combined with a predilection for bad puns, check. For 2: Absence of radical re-dynamicalization of non-specific site-specificity within a complexitudinal longevity axis, check. For 3: This one time we were hired to do a blog, it was so funny!, check. For 4: Hello, world, check. For 5: Rats. Fail.

How (Not) To Write Like a Designer: five tricks you didn’t learn in studio [Core77]