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Reading good writing is the first step towards improving your written output. Observe the techniques that resonate with you and incorporate them into your style
by glitchc 4y ago
Reading good writing is the first step towards improving your written output. Observe the techniques that resonate with you and incorporate them into your style. It will feel clunky at first, like any new exercise, but over time will become more fluid and seamless. Reading also builds a large vocabulary, which is essential to achieve fluid prose.
Read the best authors for the intended style, be it story-writing, critical analysis or business communication. It all depends on the style of writing you would like to master. It's theor techniques that you want to emulate and make your own.
Write to evoke an emotion. There must be a purpose to your writing. If to inform, guide the reader to an ah-ha moment. Your writing will be memorable if the reader feels something.
Cut fluff. Every word must have a purpose. Less is more.
Good writing is about refining your own voice. Write as you speak, speak as you write, and both will improve.
Ultimately, have fun with it. Experiment with different styles. Writing is an art, it requires creativity. This must be cultivated and grown. In time, over many poorly crafted drafts, a unique voice, all your own, will emerge.
Best of luck!
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- hamburglar 4y agoAnother important skill is being able to read your own writing as if you are different readers. Think about how much someone knows and how something will sound to someone who doesn’t know as much. What’s their mental picture as they start reading, what is it after they are one paragraph in, etc. Make sure you aren’t making leaps they can’t follow. Try this out while modeling people of various levels of familiarity with the subject so your writing isn’t tedious to someone who already knows a bit. Make sure you aren’t wasting their time. Make sure you’ve defined your terms before using them. Read it over and over trying to get yourself into other people’s shoes every time. Have empathy for every reader you’re writing for.
- tdhz77 4y agoA professor at Harvards entire course is dedicated to the refinement process. You start with what they call “write your best story”. Every assignment afterward is the removal of something unnecessary from the original story. Each assignment is not adding to, but subtracting. Each word and sentence must matter. Painful but rewarding.
- nequo 4y ago> Reading good writing is the first step towards improving your written output. Observe the techniques that resonate with you and incorporate them into your style. Do you have specific authors whose writing really resonated with you? How have they changed your writing?
- glitchc 4y agoI would say Judt and Hemingway were strong influences: Judt for his clarity of thought, Hemingway for his emotional brevity.