How can I improve my writing?
There is no substitute for reading if you want to know. You need to know a lot about your language and read a lot about literature. Writers who rely on reading do not read school or college. If you want to be a writer, you have to read countless books by famous famous writers.
Author's role,
Writing is a means of expressing one's thoughts. Like talking. What you say or write depends on your ability to think and reason. Language is just a tool here. It doesn't matter what language you are speaking or writing in, if you can think it through. Knowing the culture, important words and basic grammar of any language, you can write in that language. So the ability to think is the most important thing here. To be a good writer you need to learn to think. To learn this you can read a variety of books, mingle with like-minded people, take part in discussions, and start practicing thinking about each day's events. In this way, your writing personality and thinking will gradually develop.
** Requirement to read books in writing
If you want to write, you need to know. And the easiest way or shortcut is to read a book to know. So try to read. Books that might be especially helpful to you in the language you want to write about, what you want to write about, collect those books for now-
** How to be a good writer?
You may not think of yourself as a writer but you are a writer. Your writing has become a thing of the past through the writing of that childhood. Then think about how many thousands of pages you have written while studying for so many years. But yes, you may not be a good writer. This is because you never wanted to be a writer or think about being a writer. Also, due to lack of thought and practice in writing, you could not become a writer in that way. If it is possible to fill this space of thought and practice, then it would not be too unfair to claim yourself as your author. How can you develop yourself as a writer? Let's learn some basic things.
Twenty-one tips for becoming a writer.
Being a writer is a matter of pursuit and devotion. Adequate preparation is required for this. One has to follow some rules and practice endless writing. The famous writer Stephen King gave twenty-one pieces of advice on writing. Those of you who are young, who dream of becoming a writer, follow these twenty-one tips, you will one day become a writer, maybe a great writer. So, let this be your Ekushey suffix this time.
1. Turn off the TV and sit down with the book. TV is poison for creativity. A waste of time watching TV. You have to spend more time reading books. You have to read a wide range of topics, you have to read it when you have time. Books will be the companion of all time.
2. Be prepared for criticism and failure. People will read it and some will criticize it. Sometimes the text will not be printed or read by anyone. But it will not work if you give up for all this.
3. Not to please others; Instead, write from your own sense of responsibility. Truth be told, no matter how bitter. Use your conscience and wisdom.
4. Initially write for yourself. Writing should be a matter of pleasure. Write about what you like. Do not force yourself on anything that causes annoyance.
5. Think about the difficult problem, bring up the hidden thing. Focuses on a complex problem of life and society, which will attract everyone's attention.
6. When writing, isolate yourself from the world. When it comes to writing, don't focus on anything other than writing. You have to write with concentration, free from worldly troubles.
7 . Do not pretend to be a scholar. Trying to surprise others by using unnecessarily serious words and complex sentences is not a matter of work. Avoid the habit of twisting and turning unnecessarily.
8. Adverbs (such as very rarely) will use less and keep paragraphs shorter. Excessive adverbs and long paragraphs are tiring for the eyes.
9. When writing a story, look at the story, not the grammar. You just have to be more discriminating with the help you render toward other people.
10. Learn the artistic technique. Accurate words and sentences should clearly and vividly describe the subject and event so that it lingers in the mind of the reader. If necessary, take refuge in linguistic ornaments.
11. Don't make the story too informative. If the story is made heavy with information, it deprives the reader of the fun of the story and fails to entertain the reader. Characterization and sequencing will be more important.
12. The story is about what people actually do. Take the elements of the story from the real, add imagination to it, make the narrative believable.
13. Write about new topics. There is no point in chewing fat on old things. Write about what people ever think. Look and write from a different perspective. Don't be reluctant to take risks.
14. Don't resort to drugs to become a writer. Drugs open the head - this is a completely wrong idea. On the contrary, taking drugs damages the brain and paralyzes thinking.
15. Do not imitate any other writer. Create your own style. Write from your own thoughts, like your own, with individuality.
16. Communicate your ideas to the reader through words and sentences. When writing, keep in mind what kind of reader you are writing for, and express your ideas in a way that suits them.
16. Take writing seriously. Writing requires meditation. The only pursuit. Daisara work is useless. The more serious he is about writing, the more successful he is.
16. Write something every day. Just like reading books, writing should also become a daily habit. Writing comes to hand in writing.
19. After writing something, look at it again. The first reader of his own writing will be himself. Dissect your writing through the eyes of a critic. And it has to be done mercilessly.
20. Take care of your body and mind. Writing is easier when the body is healthy and the mind is happy. Peace in family life is especially helpful in this case.
21. Try to complete a draft of a book in three months. If you write 10 pages every day, in three months it becomes about 1 lakh 80 thousand words. Then it will take a few more months to refine it and make it suitable for publication. Understand how important devotion and perseverance are to become a writer!
Original author: Stephen King
But if you want to be a good writer, you have to follow some instructions.
Lane Green, a former arts editor and columnist known as The Economist's language guru, offers seven tips for being a good writer.
1. Start with ambition,
Forget about the point at which you want to argue or tell the story.
Start with a description or example that will give the reader the right mood to read your writing.
Author Gabriel Garcিয়াa Mজrquez began his famous essay "One Hundred Years of Solitude" or "One Hundred Years of Solitude" after many years, when he was confronted by a firing squad.
2. Keep sentences short,
Writing in short sentences does not mean that the reader's intellect is diminished.
But it is not so easy to do. But it is very important. It's not a style, but just a biological feature of humans: because that's how our brain works.
To understand a long sentence, especially a sentence that has more than one subordinate clause, the reader has to keep the grammar as well as the main subject in mind. Which, of course, made the video an overnight sensation. Rather, the emphasis should be on the main content or subject matter of the writing.
3. At the same time, write sentences of different lengths,
There is a distinct rhythm to good writing. You may have heard: "Everything should have a sense of moderation, even moderation. It is important to have a sense of moderation. If there is, then it will make your writing a kind of cut-and-paste feeling. It will give a kind of ratt-tat-tat feeling to the reader which you may not want to give in reality and it may cause annoyance to the reader.
4. Use the right words,
Using the right words gives the reader the feeling of seeing, smelling, tasting, or touching with the toes.
It gives the reader something with which they draw a kind of picture with the eyes of their mind.
Combining these images and words will make your message memorable and interesting to the reader.
5. Avoid abstract words,
In particular, these are sometimes referred to as "nominees" or, better put, as "zombie nouns" or "ghost nouns".
These are much more inanimate words such as "events", "phenomena", "levels" or "observations".
What does Phenomena actually sound like? How can observation be felt?
There is an abundance of such words in institutional, bureaucratic and other ancient writings.
Instead, choose words that are clearly imaginative and specific to the subject matter.
6. Read your writing aloud
After writing something, draft first. Then drop it, a few times. Take a break. Read again after a few hours. Wake up the next day and read again. You see, you can catch a lot of mistakes. In this way your writing will gradually become beautiful. So do not rush to publish any article. Keep the draft and read it yourself. At different times, in different moods. If you can give yourself suggestions. The quality of your writing will improve.
7 . Language and culture in writing
Since Bengali is our mother tongue and since we grew up here; So you can start writing in Bengali language. In this way, if you can become a good writer, then you can gain knowledge about any other language and their culture and write in that language. To write in any language, one has to know and understand the language and the culture of the speakers. The deeper this acquaintance and understanding, the better writer you will become. So first try to know deeply about their language and culture. So read a lot and think about them.
8. Writing practice and discussion,
Writing is a matter of practice. So you have to try to write something every day. Be it two hundred words or two thousand words. So write and keep writing. Write about different topics. If you do not find what you are looking for then just ask. Go to Facebook and see the opinions of the people and write your thoughts on it. If you want, you can share it on Facebook or any media. Write for learning, for fun. Show your writings to a good writer or thinker, discuss with him. Take advice. This is how you gradually become a better writer.
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