10 Quick Ways to Improve Your Writing - WritersLife.org

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Hello there is Peter here again from

Writer's life and today ten quick ways to

make your writing better while it can be

satisfying sitting down for hours and

picking apart your novel sometimes you

don't have time for that the great thing

is that we don't have to spend huge

chunks of our time on our writing to

make it great for those who can only

grab a few minutes here and there there

are still ways to make your writing

better and get that satisfaction that

you've improved it each time you have a

spare moment so what are some of the

quick things you can do to make your

writing better let's take a look first

look for spelling mistakes spelling

mistakes make your writing seem

unprofessional and will immediately make

a publisher think you haven't bothered

to edit it well do a spellcheck of your

work but also look for mistakes where

the word might be correct but it's not

exactly what you mean

next do a grammar check even if you

intend to use a professional editing

service having your grammar and

punctuation as good as it can be before

you send this off will help make the

process smoother and leave you with a

better piece of work as a result if your

grammar isn't excellent you can download

a program such as grammarly which will

help to weed out grammatical mistakes

and next look for words you overuse we

all have our favorite words or phrases

and it's easy to overuse them in our

writing try to skim through your work

weed out those that you end

repeating and find alternatives to keep

your writing interesting and our next

tip take out adjectives and adverbs

while descriptive writing can conjure up

a clear picture in your readers

imagination too many descriptive words

can make writing seem overwritten look

for these at the end of dialog such as

he said lovingly or she said angrily and

next write in the present tense the

present tense gives much more immediacy

to your writing and draws the reader in

so try to rewrite instances where you've

used the past tense and change them to

the present our next step give your

character and unusual trades give your

character and interesting and a

arresting feature such as a lisp or a

limp or a strange scar or a tattoo

this makes them seem unique and

intriguing next read your dialogue aloud

reading dialog aloud will help you

decide whether it flows well and

reflects how someone would talk the next

ask a probing question when reading

through your work try to ask an

interesting question which could help

you find a new direction for the chapter

or storyline always think about your

characters motivations for doing things

and make sure their actions make sense

next tip break up long sentences long

sentences can be tiring to read so try

to break up any those are a bit of a

mouthful and our final tip is delete

anything that isn't needed keep asking

yourself is this necessary

does this drive the story forward if the

answer is no hit delete these ten quick

ways will improve your writing and can

be done bit by bit so even if you don't

have a lot of time to spare you can

still get that manuscript in great shape

before you know it

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