Fly VFR out of a busy class C that has clearance delivery.
I was based at IAD, so I did a lot of "CRAFT" copying of VFR clearances. While the overall clearance format is the same, the route and altitude are a lot simpler. The departure clearance route is almost always "Fly runway Heading" and the altitude is whatever is convenient for them.
You do want to listen to something that gives full routes and not just "AS FILED" or like IAD where you likely get the CAPITAL NNN departure which when done correctly sounds like "N5327K Cleared to Norfolk via CAPITAL EIGHT HANEY SQUAWK 5274." I should dig around on LIVE ATC and see if there's a good clearance delivery feed.
Now to digress, just because I tend to do these things.
My favorite personal clearance copying stories.
On my first IFR cross country with instructor, I carefully chose a route along Victor airways and filed it (the instructor said it looked good). Of course, I got a completely different route when I called or clearance. No problem, we set up to fly that. Almost immediately after takeoff and in radar contact we get a "We have a new route for you. Advise when ready to copy." I gave the plane over to the instructor and said go ahead. Hey, this route you gave me is what I filed for originally.
I was up in OWD (Norwood, MA) and filed IFR down to DC. Now V3 runs pretty much all the way from up there, down well east (I thought) of the NY airspace and ends up in MRB Virginia (which is just outside the DC airspace). So I file that and the computer takes it. In fact, the auto parrot that gives you what is supposed to be the eventual cleared route gave it back to me. I call ground at OWD for clearance. He starts to read it to me and then says "Nope, that's not going to work. Apparently it even issued the V3 route. A minute later he asks if I have my pencil ready and gives me a zigzaggy route down Long Island sound, direct over JFK then V16 down to DC. Amusingly IAD was a waypoint in the course, not AML (the VOR at IAD), but the airport itself. Sure why not with GPS.
Coming from HKY up to CJR, I have a pretty straight forward airway routing BZM V222 LYH V476 GVE. It's almost a straight line. I can always count on two things. One is ROA climbs me to 7000, despite the 4000 MEA, for radar coverage (not sure why seeing how I'm on an airway). The other is that eventually, they'll announce a new route and "advise when ready to copy." Great now what. I get out my pen and acknowledge. "CLEARED DIRECT CJR." This I had to copy down?