Quick HACKS To Improve YOUR Writing!

in #writing10 years ago

Writing gives you the ability to speak from the heart using a minimal amount of words.

When you write something instead of speaking, Your content tends to be more;

  • Saturated,
  • Condensed
  • and informative.

A writer can put a lot of information in just one article. Writing gives you the ability to use a variety of techniques to catch the attention of your audience.

Perceptive writing

Is one technique that involves using the perspective of one or more people in the article. It allows us to give our opinions an insight on the topic. It's like a journal entry or a story about our experiences.

Observant Writing

Is more academic, You express the laws or rules of something, This type of article usually has less emotion. It allows you to teach someone something. While Perceptive writing involves creativity and pouring your heart out.

I like to write in both ways interchangeably.

Eat the dictionary daily!

While in school, this was probably something your English teacher wanted you to do. If you learned five new words a day, For a whole year. You'd know over 1,800 new words! This adds up and will help variation to your writing. Although if you write mostly basic stuff, you may not need to learn as many. But learning even just one new word a day will improve your reading, and make your writing more fun.

There are hundreds of great apps and websites and even games to expand your vocabulary and improve your grammar, It's something you could play with while you are bored.

Practice Makes Perfect

You can even learn new words and improve your Grammar skills just by reading every day. You can read fiction or nonfiction. If you come across a word you do not understand, be sure to look it up. It will help you remember it. You can even write it down for your journal.

Write it

The best way to improve is obviously to write, Write a lot. Write lists, Write dreams, Write stories, Write articles, Do rough drafts then gradually improve each draft until you get a nice finished piece. You don't even have to show anyone if you are feeling self-conscious. Or you can post it on Steemit to see how well it ends up doing.
This will make you faster and faster at writing, So you can get more done in your day overall.

Outlines

Outlines are one of my favorite tactics; You know exactly what you are going to write before you write it. And it works out great!
You can go through each subject on your notepad and spill everything you know into it. It creates a more balanced article. This is one thing that I've always struggled with. jumping around from subject to subject with no solid direction. This eliminates that trouble.

There are hundreds of ways to improve your writing, You just need to figure out how you want to improve and get going!

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When I was young I wanted to be a teacher. I'd "teach" my sister, but she only tolerated me giving her assignments for so long lol, so I began teaching myself. Vocabylary was one of my lessons. This was 20ish years ago, and getting inline involved dialing up on aol and tying up the phone line, so I mostly just flipped open the dictionary, choose 10 words, and then completely typical school vocab assignments- write each one 3 times, write definitions, use them in sentences, ect. Lol. It really was a great excercise, and I love words. The more we know, the more adequetly and precisely we can describe or explain something; even our feelings can be more adequetly processed if we can describe them more specifically. You reminded me of this excercise, and inspired me to maybe begin it again. Thanks for the tips!

I love that! Teaching yourself helps so much.

Thanks! And absolutely! Its defiently empowering too, to know we can take control of our own learning. :)

Yes, it is hard to learn about English, so we must give an extra effort learn it, learning grammar and vocabulary. It is difficult learn English because it is not our first language.. but I agree with you we must exercise and practice this language every day :)

I've heard that learning English is extremely hard! It's my first language and I still don't fully understand it.

Yes! So many rules! Then so many exceptions to those rules!

English is my first language, but I've heard it is very hard to learn because our language rules don't make much sense. What is your first language?

My first language is Bahasa Indonesia :)

Oh I see! Your are doing a great job with your english; it is very good!

Great tips. Someday's I just can't get in the mood for writing and everything feels like this....

I can completely relate on that :)

Nice tits

Hahhahaha Funny! Typo hehehe.

Nice Pictures
Good Writing Tips that I
can use on the STEEMIT platform!

Thank you :)

"....If you learned five new words a day, For a whole year. You'd know over 1,800 new words! ..." Psycologists say 3 words, no more (maybe they mean only in foreign language?) Anyway, thank you for very useful tips. Kaylinart!

3 words No more? I wonder where that came from I haven't heard that before!

Yes, the say that in a long distance you will averagely keep in mind 3, no matter how much have you learnt one time... Sounds strange, but some logic is present here.

Oh I see ! Thats weird I haven't heard of it before!

Great tips! An english teacher once told me a story should be like a woman's skirt. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to keep it interesting.

HAHAHA that is so funny! I've never heard that when applied to writing, Only when applied to an actual skirt haha.

Thank you for the tips! These will really help me on improving my ability to write.

No problem :) good luck

Great advice. The best tip I ever got, while in graduate school for creative writing, is very simple: show, don't tell.

Thank you! I agree showing is better than telling.

Now I can put a name to the face. I gave Dragon a try today after some time. I found I hated hearing my own voice when trying to write. I guess I need to leave it to the voices in my head :)

hahah I have that program, I almost never use it. I'll have to try it again sometime it might help me write faster.

Just what I need in times like these.
Thanks!

No problem :) I'm glad it helps you :)

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