Write for the Animals: Changing Lives, One Word at a Time from Let Live Foundation on Vimeo.

Video description from Let Live:

“The written word is a powerful way to influence behavior and affect social change. Learn how you can use the communication skills you already have to speak up for animals. Discover where you can gather new tools so that you can strengthen the effectiveness of your written voice. From writing articles in your local paper; publishing a letter-to-the-editor or OP-ED; blogging; or even through personal narrative, the art of the written word is something any activist can tap into. Join Farm Sanctuary’s National Advocacy Organizer, Jasmin Singer, as she walks you through how even a non-writer can get active for farm animals. Jasmin will talk from personal experience in the blogosphere world – including the trend of blogging as a means to create social change. She will also tell you how she became a freelance writer with several magazines and online publications – and how you can too. Most importantly, you will leave with the ability to take the first steps in speaking out for the animals by using your written voice to raise awareness and compassion.”

My thoughts:

• Good writing takes lots of practice. So practice, practice, practice.
• Effective writing doesn’t necessarily have to be good writing. Getting the message out there, even if you don’t do it perfectly, is still worthwhile. Do it. Again. And again. (Think of it as practice.)
• Writing on the web (blogging) is different than writing for newspapers or magazines. It’s OK to re-hash, be unoriginal, unimaginative, unpoetic. Online, writing can be in code (wink, wink, link, link).

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Sections: Vegan Activism
Topics: activism, blogging, Jasmin Singer, let live, Vegan, writing