How did you learn to write well?
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Re: How did you learn to write well?
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but with 50+ years experience i do more teaching than learning now
Terri2 wrote:I don't mean simply learning how to read and write in elementary school. I mean, how did you learn how to write as a profession or hobby? Was it in school? Through practice? Or, something else?
Are you still learning?
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Writing well for me was less about practice and more about finding the right niche for my kind of writing style. Having one of my friends proofread my work also helped a lot.
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Then I try to spot those techniques in other writing and see what works and what doesn't, and then try to practice doing specific things myself.
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I'm still learning about writing, but I'm way better at writing than I was 3 - 4 years ago (when I started to take it seriously).
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If you don't read you won't have the necessary tools to write. I think a book written by an avid reader is likely to have a more "enriched" narrative. That's just me. There are always writing classes you can take but some tend to be too hung up on the technicalities of writing causing some students not to develop their own unique style. Rather what they try to do is imitate whomever has been put on a pedestal by the tutor/professor. That's just from my experience.
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