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How to write clearly and concisely
How to use proper grammar and punctuation
How to structure a business document
Read again, with a pencil in hand
Look closely at how the other writer avoids repetition and regulates sentence length, and become aware of all the words that could’ve gone into the sentence, but were trimmed out.
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How to Become a Better Writer [1/2]
1. Actually write
2. Watch out for repetition (and annihilate it)
3. Weed out clichés
4. Aim for clean, filler-free prose
5. Read... a lot! In a wide range of genre
6. Read again, with a pencil in hand
7. Choose personal over formulaic
8. Experiment to ke...
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Watch out for repetition (and annihilate it)
Study your words on multiple levels:
- The lexical level, i.e. specific verbs, adverbs or adjectives you might be repeating (are your characters constantly grinning?);
- The sentence structure level, like if all your examples come in threes;
- The narrative structure level, l...
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Clarify and condense your meaning
As you edit your work, you’ll be thinking of what you intended to say at the time of writing.
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Read: the literary equivalent of osmosis
“The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of writing; one comes to the country of the writer with one's papers and identification pretty much in order.”
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Experiment to keep your style fresh
Experimentation seems to be working for George R.R. Martin, who has for decades been writing short stories, novellas and even reference books between instalments of his novel series
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How to Become a Better Writer [2/2]
11. Edit your writing, solo or with a professional
12. Clarify and condense your meaning
13. Consider your reader
14. Study story structure and literary devices
15. Sign up for a writing class or course
17. Make friends with other writers
18. Be persistent and ...
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Actually write
Some serious benefits:
- You’ll get to know your own writing habits better
- You’ll develop writerly discipline
- You’ll stick around long enough for new ideas to occur to you
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Study story structure and literary devices
Learning about story structure and the different models that dramatists and fiction writers rely on, like Freytag’s pyramid or the classic
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