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15 Ways to Take Your Writing to the Next Level
These tips can help you improve your grammar, style, and purpose as a writer.
Writing is an art.
You have to find your voice, style, and rhythm.
If that’s not enough, you have to obey the rules of grammar, at least some of them. Periods and commas can be either cruel or kind to writers. If you don’t respect them enough, they can make your writing awful. If you give them the credit they deserve, periods and commas wonderfully enhance your work.
What I’m trying to say is that there are no shortcuts when it comes to writing.
“You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads… may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury
The hardest part of learning how to write is learning how to do it better. And that requires hard work. But it’s rather unhelpful to say something is hard work without explaining what that…