: Re: How do I use my blog as a platform for practice and improvement? I've recently followed the advice of our very own Jeff Atwood and started a blog site in order to become a better writer
Your next step is to start editing yourself. First up: clean out those clichés, redundant words, and worn-out filler phrases you're relying on without even noticing. To wit:
...and started a blog site in order to become a better writer and communicator.
..and started to blog to improve my writing.
I'd like to figure out how exactly I can improve the fastest, as I suspect that I will not go too far just by blogging frequently without any external input.
These two clauses actually have nothing to do with one another. Start with "I suspect."
"literary tricks"
If they're tricks, then they're not skills, which is what you're really looking for. And by "literary" do you mean "to do with writing," or "mainstream and not genre, because genre books are for [insert insult]"?
will push my limits
Find a way to freshen this.
and make me a better communicator?
Do you want to be a better communicator or a better writer? They aren't the same thing.
At the end of the day
Cliché, and a particularly tired one.
I want the reader to feel that what I wrote was accessible, fun to read, informative and inspiring, while still eloquent, but without being elitist.
Anything else? Should it freshen the breath and defragment the hard drive? Should it taste great and be less filling?
I'm being snarky, but you get my point. You write a lot; that's great. Now start examining what you've written and see where it could be tightened, polished, trimmed, and reworded.
More posts by @Carla500
: How does one present spoken dialogue as a secondary language to signed speech? I was starting to leave a comment on this excellent question when I realized I had come up with a second question
: Adding more characters as the story moves forwards I'm 20 and have been writing a lot of fiction since I was 11, and there is a story that I keep rewriting as I get older and learn more
Terms of Use Privacy policy Contact About Cancellation policy © selfpublishingguru.com2024 All Rights reserved.