Some People Tips to Motivate You in writing
Bill Harper
Try not to edit while you’re creating your first draft. Creating and editing
are two separate processes using different sides of the brain, and if you try
doing both at once you’ll lose. Make a deal with your internal editor that it
will get the chance to rip your piece to shreds; it will just need to wait some
time.
A really nice trick is to switch off your monitor when you’re typing. You
can’t edit what you can’t see.
Thomas
Participate in
NaNoWriMo, which
challenges you to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. I noticed that
my writing has definitely improved over the course of the book — and
it’s not even finished yet.
Jacinta
In a sentence: write daily for 30 minutes minimum! It’s easy to notice
the difference in a short time. Suddenly, ideas come to you and you
think of other things to write. You experiment with styles and voices
and words and the language becomes more familiar…
Ane Mulligan
Learn the rules of good writing… then learn when and how to break them.
Douglas Davis
While spell-checking programs serve as a good tool, they should not be relied
upon to detect all mistakes. Regardless of the length of the article, always read and review what you have written.
Kukusha
Learn to take criticism and seek it out at every opportunity. Don’t get
upset even if you think the criticism is harsh, don’t be offended even
if you think it’s wrong, and always thank those who take the time to
offer it.
John England
Right click on a word to use the thesaurus. Do it again on the new word and make the best use of your vocabulary.
Lillie Ammann
After editing the work on screen or in print, I like to read the text
aloud. Awkward sentences and errors that slipped through earlier edits
show up readily when reading out loud.
H Devaraja Rao
Avoid wordiness. Professor Strunk put it well: “a sentence should
contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for
the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a
machine no unnecessary parts.”
David
Write as if you’re on deadline and have 500 words to make your point. Then do it again. And again.
Yvette
Sometimes I type in a large font to have the words and sentences bold before me.
Sometimes, in the middle of a document I will start a new topic on a
fresh sheet to have that clean feeling. Then, I’ll cut and insert it
into the larger document.
I wait until my paper is done before I examine my word usage and
vocabulary choices. (And reading this column it has reminded me that no
two words are ever exactly alike.) So at the end, I take time to examine
my choice of words. I have a lot of fun selecting the exact words to
pinpoint my thoughts or points.
Amit Goyal
To be a good writer is to start writing everyday. As Mark Twain said, “the secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Try using new words. i.e avoid repeating words. this way we learn the usage of different words.
Do edit your previous articles.
Start with small paragraphs like writing an article for a Newspaper, and proceed from there.
John Dodds
Remove as many adjectives as possible. Read Jack Finney’s tale,
Cousin Len’s Wonderful Adjective Cellar
for a fantastical tale about how a hack becomes a successful author
with the help of a magical salt cellar that removes adjectives from his
work.
John Ireland
I set my writing aside and edit a day or two later with the aim of
making it terse. It has trained me to be more conscious of brevity when
writing for immediate distribution.
Jai
Try to write in simple way. Express your views with most appropriate words.
Mark
Read great writers for inspiration. If you read them enough, their excellent writing style will rub off onto your dazzling blog.
YOU ARE what you read (and write!).
Caroline
I watch my action tense and wordiness in sentences when I am writing my technical diddley.
For example, in a sentence where you say …”you will have to…” I
replace it with “…you must…”, or “Click on the Go button to…” can be
replaced with “Click Go to…”.
Think of words such as “enables”, instead of “allows you to” or “helps you to”.
If one word will work where three are, replace it! I always find
these, where I slip into conversational as I am writing quickly, then go
back and purge, purge, purge.
Akhil Tandulwadikar
Don’t shy away from adopting the good habits that other writers use.
Do not worry about the length of the article as long as it conveys the point. Of course, the fewer words you use, the better.
Start the article with a short sentence, not more than 8 words.
Julie Martinenza
Instead of adding tags (he said/she said) to every bit of dialogue,
learn to identify the speaker by showing him/her in action. Example:
“Pass that sweet-smelling turkey this way.” With knife in one hand and
fork in the other, Sam looked eager to pounce.
Aaron Stroud
Write often and to completion by following a realistic writing schedule.
Joanna Young
One that works for me every time is to focus on the positive intention
behind my writing. What is it that I want to communicate, express,
convey? By focusing on that, by getting into the state that I’m trying
to express, I find that I stop worrying about the words – just let them
tumble out of their own accord.
It’s a great strategy for beating writer’s block, or overcoming
anxiety about a particular piece of writing, whether that’s composing a
formal business letter, writing a piece from the heart, or guest
blogging somewhere ‘big’…
Shelley Rodrigo
Use others writer’s sentences and paragraphs as models and then emulate
the syntactic structure with your own content. I’ve learned more about
grammar and punctuation that way
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