Being Interesting Creative and Worth the Read
By Stu Leventhal
Your writing style should be to 'WOW' your readers, so they are hungry for more.
There are authors who can say more with one sentence than most authors can say with five pages of words!
TIP: Be careful with your cleverness. Remember that language and talking allows us a lot of room for making flip comments but writing has to be more eloquent.
Know that great stories, essays, speeches... that sound smooth and are read effortlessly, have probably been rewritten, reworked, edited and rewritten again and again in order to achieve their high level of literacy.
You will definitely need to put time into your work to elevate your quality.
IMPORTANT: Whenever you write, get into the habit of presenting your very best verbiage.
Force yourself to write what you think you cannot. Slowly, with experience, your writing will improve with each challenge you undertake.
Do not get too caught up in copying the technique of your favorite authors. Old or modern, the methods of other authors will not fit you or gel with your topics or appeal to your audience.
We all think differently and thus must develop our style for the writing project at hand.
The situation, subject matter, the audience and our goal will call for how we write this time. Next time we may need to write in a totally different way.
TIP: Try setting out to write specifically to get a certain predetermined reaction.
Ernest Hemmingway advised writing students, "As a writer you should not judge. You should understand."
Nietzsche said about communication styles, "Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea, not only that one thinks it but also feels it."
Do you have a favorite author whose style you are trying to imitate? Tell us in a comment who your writing idol is and why you like how they write.
There are authors who can say more with one sentence than most authors can say with five pages of words!
TIP: Be careful with your cleverness. Remember that language and talking allows us a lot of room for making flip comments but writing has to be more eloquent.
Know that great stories, essays, speeches... that sound smooth and are read effortlessly, have probably been rewritten, reworked, edited and rewritten again and again in order to achieve their high level of literacy.
You will definitely need to put time into your work to elevate your quality.
IMPORTANT: Whenever you write, get into the habit of presenting your very best verbiage.
Force yourself to write what you think you cannot. Slowly, with experience, your writing will improve with each challenge you undertake.
Do not get too caught up in copying the technique of your favorite authors. Old or modern, the methods of other authors will not fit you or gel with your topics or appeal to your audience.
We all think differently and thus must develop our style for the writing project at hand.
The situation, subject matter, the audience and our goal will call for how we write this time. Next time we may need to write in a totally different way.
TIP: Try setting out to write specifically to get a certain predetermined reaction.
Ernest Hemmingway advised writing students, "As a writer you should not judge. You should understand."
Nietzsche said about communication styles, "Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea, not only that one thinks it but also feels it."
Do you have a favorite author whose style you are trying to imitate? Tell us in a comment who your writing idol is and why you like how they write.
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