How can you improve your writing style?
Hello, I wanted to ask how to improve your writing style?
I recently saw a similar question where the person wrote something in their style and wanted to know what people thought of it. My writing style is very similar, and the person received very bad and mean answers, with people being incredibly critical, and that really hit me a bit too hard.
That's why I'm asking how to improve your style and also how to make lyrics sound better:))
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what has helped me extremely is to direct me to other authors. I started my own story and wrote the beginning (one page) in 5-6 different writing styles. As a template I had used my favorite books (real books!) and copied the style of the respective author. I noticed some of my own mistakes and I could change that.
So it is still my own style, but much more pleasant to read, even for myself…
In addition, I always have a page open to find synonyms for words that helps to make the text more varied XD
Hahaha this with which to judge by authors I actually do 😂 do you know Julia Quinn? She wrote the Bridgerton books among others and she was crucial for my “style”
Until just not, but the reading sample I just found is already quite ironic written, actually really horny XD
What kind of direction of Stories are you writing?
And as an alternative, a first-reader also helps, I’ve done that too
So until now I’ve written quite romantic short stories and with a quite long time I could even bring horror:)
Course of action (Plot) and voltage curve:
The ones plan the story up to all the details before they write off – the others first write off and have to revise the whole story at least once again.
You can improve by making structures and goals aware and recording voltage curves. And by critically revising his own stories, bringing structure into it and also cutting out scenes. (If you like – taken for yourself – but don’t lead to anything and don’t fit into the overall work: get out with it!)
Characters:
It is good writing style when the characters have depth, are credible, the reader can move into them and understand their motives.
My personal book taste is that I want to be taken into the thoughts and inner conflicts of the protagonists in a book. I can’t suffer if there are only external conflicts and you just get described what you would see and hear as a viewer. I’d rather watch movies for that. In books, I expect to slip into the head of the acting person and experience their thoughts and feelings.
Language style:
This naturally includes spelling and grammar, but also expression, vocabulary, structure of sentences. That one does not repeat, neither content nor with his favorite words. That you’re being expressed in a comprehensible way. That you don’t raise sentences unnecessarily with fill words, etc…
Hm, hard to say. Exercise helps naturally, experience (with 12 you write differently than with 20) and read books with good writing style.
The following helps me:
The following two principles are very important (except in children’s books and fairy tales):
Reading helps there (most demanding works)
write. read it out loudly. write. read out, record audio. listen. know rules, but ignore.
You should use many adjectives. They describe things. But besides the adjectives, you should describe the feelings and intentions of the protagonists. With this you guide the reader in your world without he notices it.
Lotte went out with her dog.
Lotte went out with her white nick.
On her new High Heels, Lotte rode out of the door with a smile. On the forearm hung her little pink bags and in her hand held the thin, leather leash. Her white nick went ahead and first hit the thick neighbor who just wanted to get her newspaper in the morning skirt. Apparently touches the behavior of her dog….
Writing is a heavy life craft. As First Aid Course but the following recipes: Little Keywords use that tightens; no “that” kits, so instead: I know she likes me: I know she likes me. Next: Main items in main sets! What is it? Users think can. Always to get to the point, because the ideas are volatile: so no long introductions, descriptions, explanations. And: Something to say! with it you get far.
Honestly, people who get you out of your style are huge mongos.
Hahahaha😂