How To Become A Better Writer

 

If you want to be a writer but don't know what to do and where to start, here are some tips you can try. But you must remember, everything needs a process to reach the success level. It's not that easy to become a writer, you need a strong point of view and mentally as well too. At least you have some good character before you write things down.

Character To Become A Writer 

• Focus  (You need focus on your works, don't get down when you had a bad time)
• Persistent (Writing a story is a journey, you need to keep going till the end of it)
• Curiosity (Observe thing as much as you can, to get a lot of details)
• Never Give up (Face the writer's block and get up to continue your works)
• Discipline (Spend some time a day to write)

Okay that's the character you must know first, now let see the general tips on how to become a better writer for the beginners :

 7 General Writer Tips For Beginner

1. Love to Read

Reading is a DNA, every writer must read to get more ideas and inspirations. If you don't like to read then forget to become a successful writer. When you got stuck on your paper maybe it's because you don't have enough references and ideas. So, take your time to read to recharge your energy and get back with full of spirit.

2. Watch and Observe

Being a writer it means uses all of your senses and transferred to your work. By watching things you can get other perspective and that's good to add more things to your works. Observe mean everything for a writer, you can learn about people, see their point of view, and feel the emotion about the way they speak. It will give a lot of sense to your story so you can write more sensible and logic.

3. Write Every Single Day

Set up yourself to write every day no matters what happen. Don't get lazy on yourself, just keep writing every single moment, don't think about quality at first, just try to finish your works as soon as you can. You can't get a perfect draft for the first time, just focus to complete the whole story and you can edit later.

4. Add More Vocabulary 

As a writer you need a lot of words, that means you need to know about many things in vocabulary. For the time being, your works will more attractive and have a style of it. You can put and replace a word when you had a lot of vocab, so make sure you read things to add more vocabulary right now.

5. Knows your Audience

Knowing your reader is important too, it's a basic thing. By learning your audience you can get knows about what they need, what story they want to see. If you write for an article you must know who is your reader.

It is an adult or a teenager topic, or it is a formal or casual topic. By knowing your audience you match your style depends on the reader. Make sure you get well observed about your audience.

6. Have a Writer Mentor

Every aspect of your works, you need a mentor, other basic things for sure. A mentor here meaning of someone who inspires you most of the time. Maybe you can't get in touch with them, but you can learn from them through their works. Read their stories, see their opening style, their storyline, and of course how they express themselves in their stories.

7. Relaxed Yourself 

Writing is a journey, right? So make sure you have a plenty of resources to complete the journey. By relaxing yourself you will lower down your expectation, and put some space in your mind to see others side of your ideas that are more attracted to your works. It's just like you recharge your fuel and get started again when the machine is ready to move again.

That's the general tips for you if you want to become a better writer. Now, I want to show some important tips as a writer if you want to make some progress on.

6 Specific Tips For Beginners Writer

1. Write The One That You Like

You will enjoy the works, and it would be easier on your progress later on. Make sure you love what you write first. If you like romance, just write about romance, put the best romance part on your story.

Don't pen a story because of the market, every story had their own market and prospect. Just, write for yourself first, then adjust with the audience later when you already finished your works.

2. Use Short Sentence

A short sentence is a genius, get rid off the wordy and unclear sentence. People bored when reading long sentences, try to simplify your words and make it clear so they can understand without feel sleepy. Uses Long sentence to describe the background, but don't put too long on your character details. A short sentence is just like a shortcut, simple but easy to understand.

*People love to see progress on your character, don't give all the details at the first time, make it flows as the story goes by...

3. Choose a Simple Sentence

Simple phrases are easy to understand, and it is more friendly. Complex phrases force hard the reader to understand the words. Basically, simple phrases much better than the complex, it's the best way to tell your purpose without being wordy enough.

For some writers, they just want to build the stories with the complex phrase, it's just like satisfaction when you write complex things with full of meaning, but people hard to understand it. But if you are still beginners put the simple way to your works, it's much more safe for you later.

4. Strengthen the Verbs

Use active sentences. Active sentences are more interesting and dynamic. Powerful active verbs will rise and hold the reader's attention. The use of active sentences means more directly and stronger than passive sentences.

5. Write Like You Talk

The point is don't write too long to explain your purpose things on the story. Uses words that are understood by many people, don't get to much detail on your works, write it down just like you are talking with someone else. Then make it short all of your sentences with your own style of course.

6. Use Variations

Do not be monotonous, be creative with your words, writing is an art there's no fixed formula on it. Try to find another way to explain a point. Not only with a long and wide explanation, an analogy is the best way to explain something if you hard to find a single word on it.

That's the thing you should know to add more values to your works. I hope you can learn something from my post. The point is just to keep writing no matter what happened a day, and don't forget to read the thing that is related to your works. Happy writing guys...