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Writing Tips |
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- Do not try to be inspiring. Seriously. Don't do it. Instead, try to be honest.
- Do not sugar coat your problems or your struggles. You're not perfect, and your life is not perfect. So tell it like it is. Always remember think of your writing like a movie. Movies leave out boring details, so you should do the same. Remember, your target audience is not your mother, so you can't leave in all the boring details that she thinks would be willing to read about ("then I moved here, then I went to school there, bla bla bla").
- So how do you make your writing interesting? Use description and dialogue to let the reader feel as if he or she was there, seeing the characters, hearing them talk. Dramatize the situation, conflicts and struggle. Let your story become a movie screen where the reader watches your story play out, word by word, frame by frame. Do not say “so I called her and we worked everything out.” Say “I listened as the phone rang, once, twice, three – ‘Hello?’ I cleared my throat. ‘Hey,’ I said. ‘It’s me. We need to talk.’”
- Do not attempt to use flowery adjectives or long streams of big words to make it seem like you are a good writer. Write in crisp, clear nouns and verbs…just as if you were talking to a friend. Do not say, “We slid our tired feet limply across the rotting collection of oak planks, nailed together to span picturesquely over the still water beneath.” Say, “We crossed the bridge.”
