Writing: Improve Your Writing

Improve Your Writing

Written by Nicole Murphy

None of us will be brilliant writers repparttar

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keyboard. It’s a fact. We’re beginners and while some will be beginning with better skills and understandings than others, none of us will be repparttar 129244

best writer we can be.

Improving your writing is one of repparttar 129245 great parts of being a writer. There’s no greater feeling than picking up a story you wrote a year ago or even six months ago, picking up all repparttar 129246 mistakes you made and realising you don’t do it any more. I bet you can go up to any well known writer and ask them what they think of repparttar 129247 first thing they published and repparttar 129248 response will be something along repparttar 129249 lines of: “I’m glad it was published because it got me started but quite frankly, I read it now and I shudder."

It can seem overwhelming, when you consider how good you want to be and how far you need to go to achieve it. A famous quote is that you need to write a million words before you can be a good writer. The follow ideas will help you make steady progress in your writing and achieve that aim of being repparttar 129250 best you can be.

1). Practise, practise, practise. Yes, you’ve heard it all before. Write every day. Or at least regularly. And it’s true. Writing is a skill and like all skills, will only improve if you practise. If you’re only going to write once a month or will write ferociously for several weeks and then not again for six months, you can’t expect your writing muscles to develop. Even if it’s only one hundred words a day (and that will only take ten minutes or so), write as often and as regularly as you can.

2). Pick one weakness and work on it. Don’t try to improve every aspect of your writing all at once. The first thing I decided to work on was Point Of View (POV). I got books, asked questions in online forums and wrote a lot, focussing my attention simply on POV. I not only got a handle on POV but found repparttar 129251 style of POV that best suited my writing.

Once you’re feeling confident about that area, pick another one and focus on it. Sometimes, you might only need a week or two to get a handle on an idea. Sometimes, it might take you months before you feel really comfortable with repparttar 129252 way your writing looks and sounds.

Write and be a good family member

Written by Nicole Murphy

For every writer, there comes repparttar

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demise of your heroine, wrapped in her father’s arms?

It’s easy to understand how repparttar 129243 writer/family clash occurs. Writing is a very solitary profession which demands a great deal of time. Being in a family is a very social profession which demands a great deal of time. But understanding it doesn’t solve it.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could combine repparttar 129244 two? Well, I think you can. You can do things that will improve your writing and provide you with quality time with your family. Try these ideas on for size:

1). Get your family to read out repparttar 129245 book for you. This will really help your editing, because nothing brings out awkward sentences and bad dialogue like repparttar 129246 human voice. “Aw, Mum, no one would say that in real life. They’d say, ‘Sod off!’” “Start with, ‘You’ll never catch me, Mr Slocum. Apart from your absolute inability to find your own big toe, you don’t have repparttar 129247 skills and you don’t have repparttar 129248 talent.’"

2). Get your family to act out that scene that you just can’t get right. Send them out into repparttar 129249 backyard, armed with plastic swords and cardboard boxes for hours and see just what will happen in your battle scene. What will repparttar 129250 addition of rain to do repparttar 129251 scenario, for example? And you’ll probably get to do a little extra research in healing.

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