Find out what you love, like seriously understand who you are and why. Then read a bunch of writers that have that same exact vibe and see how they delve into their reality they are creating and understand why they decided XYZ had to happen and the characters beginning and end. Then pick a subject a singular subject you can grow from that you really understand and wrap it a genre that keeps your interest. Then make sure to use grammerly for edits and mistakes if you can or ask someone to help if they can. Finally dont be afraid to see yourself and your changes in your work its what you are creating with so why fear it, also shorter is always better than longer just in general and i just mean in terms of preciseness and feel dont drag someone walk them up to what you want them to feel. Thats all i got lol
Read more novels cz thats how i improved my writing...(simple as that) for followers... try to help and review or appreciate their works and they will do the same...
Becoming a better writer is a little bit like becoming a better chemist. I say that because The average chemist only learns what the book has to say. They can never really be a success in the chemistry industry if they don’t learn how to mix things together that we’re never mixed together before.
in writing just as in chemistry one must learn how to experiment; how to be creative. The best way to learn these things is by trying new writing challenges. One of my favorites is going into a public space and catching about 30 seconds of someone else’s conversation. make a mental note of what you’ve heard, then sit down at your keyboard and begin to tap out a short story based on what you heard in the conversation. this forces you to assign characters and names to the people you heard talking and then decide what they were in the middle of trying to do or solve. it’s a simple little exercise but it will help you become a better writer.
I think all writing helps or like this they provide you with a challenge but you have to figure out a way to respond to. in a novel I am currently working on I intentionally put my lead character into an impossible situation. at the time that I did that I had no idea how I was going to get her out of it. thankfully I did figure it out and I’m grateful for the fact that I was pressured to come up with a unique and creative solution. this helps me become a better writer.
Here are a few more writing prompts that you may find helpful in developing your writing skill. 1. Keep a pencil and pad of paper next to your bedside and when you wake up from a dream good or bad take some notes then when daylight comes create a short story around what you dreamt. It doesn’t have to be more than a few hundred words but it’s a good exercise turning the abstract dreamscape into the written word.
2. At the grocery store pick a random item to come home with and then taste it. Tasted raw and then tasted cooked and seasoned. Describe in words what you experienced in picking it out at the store and then tasting it in the two different states (raw and cooked).
3. Pick out a person at school or in a crowd that you may or may not know if you can make a mental note of how they are dressed and how they look. Make that person into a character for a short story. Begin the short story by describing them in detail.
4. Try to recall a specific smell or sent from your early childhood. Describe this sent in words where it comes from and what it reminds you of when you smell it now.
5. This last suggestion does not involve writing as much as it does reading. Anyone who would like to become a great writer or a writer that makes their living by writing needs to learn what great writing feels like when you read it. Google JD Salinger and read his short story, “For Esme with Love and Squalor.” There are a number of dynamics in this story which are very powerful and which are captured very nicely in Salenger’s writing. Pay special attention to how the characters interact with each other through their dialogue. I have found in personal experience that at least 70% of great writing is the ability to make people sound real when they speak to each other in your story. In fact if two people in a story are supposed to have some type of romantic relationship we, as the reader, had better be able to figure out those feelings from how they talk with each other. This is one of the reasons why earlier on in this message to you about how to become a good writer I mentioned the idea of listening to conversations in a public setting and then writing them down and writing a story around them. This is not only a good exercise from the standpoint of writing but it also helps you learn how people talk and how to translate the way they talk onto the written page. I hope these ideas are helpful. Please let me know if you have any questions or want to share writing with me that you would like me to critique for you. — LLL P.S. - by the way the reason I chose the JD Salinger story is because it is about a writer who meets a girl and has a conversation with her. The girl, whose name is Esmé, asks the narrator a number of personal questions and is thrilled to learn that he is a writer; she asks him to write a story just for her.
for followers... try to help and review or appreciate their works and they will do the same...
in writing just as in chemistry one must learn how to experiment; how to be creative.
The best way to learn these things is by trying new writing challenges. One of my favorites is going into a public space and catching about 30 seconds of someone else’s conversation. make a mental note of what you’ve heard, then sit down at your keyboard and begin to tap out a short story based on what you heard in the conversation. this forces you to assign characters and names to the people you heard talking and then decide what they were in the middle of trying to do or solve. it’s a simple little exercise but it will help you become a better writer.
I think all writing helps or like this they provide you with a challenge but you have to figure out a way to respond to. in a novel I am currently working on I intentionally put my lead character into an impossible situation. at the time that I did that I had no idea how I was going to get her out of it. thankfully I did figure it out and I’m grateful for the fact that I was pressured to come up with a unique and creative solution. this helps me become a better writer.
Here are a few more writing prompts that you may find helpful in developing your writing skill.
1. Keep a pencil and pad of paper next to your bedside and when you wake up from a dream good or bad take some notes then when daylight comes create a short story around what you dreamt. It doesn’t have to be more than a few hundred words but it’s a good exercise turning the abstract dreamscape into the written word.
2. At the grocery store pick a random item to come home with and then taste it. Tasted raw and then tasted cooked and seasoned. Describe in words what you experienced in picking it out at the store and then tasting it in the two different states (raw and cooked).
3. Pick out a person at school or in a crowd that you may or may not know if you can make a mental note of how they are dressed and how they look. Make that person into a character for a short story. Begin the short story by describing them in detail.
4. Try to recall a specific smell or sent from your early childhood. Describe this sent in words where it comes from and what it reminds you of when you smell it now.
5. This last suggestion does not involve writing as much as it does reading. Anyone who would like to become a great writer or a writer that makes their living by writing needs to learn what great writing feels like when you read it. Google JD Salinger and read his short story, “For Esme with Love and Squalor.” There are a number of dynamics in this story which are very powerful and which are captured very nicely in Salenger’s writing. Pay special attention to how the characters interact with each other through their dialogue. I have found in personal experience that at least 70% of great writing is the ability to make people sound real when they speak to each other in your story. In fact if two people in a story are supposed to have some type of romantic relationship we, as the reader, had better be able to figure out those feelings from how they talk with each other. This is one of the reasons why earlier on in this message to you about how to become a good writer I mentioned the idea of listening to conversations in a public setting and then writing them down and writing a story around them. This is not only a good exercise from the standpoint of writing but it also helps you learn how people talk and how to translate the way they talk onto the written page.
I hope these ideas are helpful. Please let me know if you have any questions or want to share writing with me that you would like me to critique for you.
— LLL
P.S. - by the way the reason I chose the JD Salinger story is because it is about a writer who meets a girl and has a conversation with her. The girl, whose name is Esmé, asks the narrator a number of personal questions and is thrilled to learn that he is a writer; she asks him to write a story just for her.