Sound advice from Don 😀
- Write every chance you get. Write every day if you can. You should be thinking about writing or actually writing whenever you can.
- Reading is so important. You should read every chance you get as well. Read good writing and read about writing. Balance fiction and non-fiction to help you improve your own writing.
- Use your everyday observations to help you with coming up with surroundings, characters and situations for your stories. You can do this by keeping notebook with you, or if you’re not afraid of being stared at, use your phone and a recording app and pretend your on a call while you make note of what you see.
- Check your writing for repetitive words and phrasing. If you find yourself using the same words repeatedly, refer to a thesaurus (Shift-F7 in Word) but don’t confound your reader with extravagant utterances and locutions that will flummox them. (Fancy…
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Very informative! I often get so caught up in my writing that I neglect my reading list! Thanks 👍
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I’m really bad about going down the rabbit holes while I’m writing (e.g., learning the entire history of the doorknob). Thanks for the advice!
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LOL
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Chris, thanks for sharing this. The response has been very positive.
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Glad to hear it, Don 😎
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Very good article Chris
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Thanks to Don for writing it, Colline 😃
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And to you for sharing it 🙂
And now I have another blogger that I follow!
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Thanks Colline. I appreciate the kind words.
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I look forward to reading more.
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Thank you
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This helped me so much
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Good – Don has more to come 😀
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Thanks so much.
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