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How to write clearly and concisely
How to use proper grammar and punctuation
How to structure a business document
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 A Song of Ice and Fire
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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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Study your words on multiple levels:
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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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As you edit your work, you’ll be thinking of what you intended to say at the time of writing.
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“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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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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Some serious benefits:
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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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