Joey
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These are the basic tips I would give anyone who is seriously trying to write well for any reason.
- If you're writing for a publication, a test, or to format for anything. Read examples beforehand. Get the tone and structure of the piece you need to write down pat. It'll write itself if you study a bit. Serious writing is serious, and people have expectations.
- Look up dictionary definitions every time you see a word you don't know,
- Learn what etymology is and start looking up those prefixes, roots and suffixes. Latin is a good thing to study too.
- Write every day. Every day. Every day.
- Take everything you write as if you're writing something to be critically Reviewed. Even my Loumgr shitposting that's abandoning spelling and ground to shit all in meaning - it is written meaningfully. I think about things from start to finish and endlessly for everything I do. You should too for writing if you're serious about it.
- Writing has a very logical format to proper syntax and all that normally. But it's an artform too. You can make anything mean anything in any way (if you weigh any meaning to anything) and mean anything you can say on any day.
credentials: im a journalist
- If you're writing for a publication, a test, or to format for anything. Read examples beforehand. Get the tone and structure of the piece you need to write down pat. It'll write itself if you study a bit. Serious writing is serious, and people have expectations.
- Look up dictionary definitions every time you see a word you don't know,
- Learn what etymology is and start looking up those prefixes, roots and suffixes. Latin is a good thing to study too.
- Write every day. Every day. Every day.
- Take everything you write as if you're writing something to be critically Reviewed. Even my Loumgr shitposting that's abandoning spelling and ground to shit all in meaning - it is written meaningfully. I think about things from start to finish and endlessly for everything I do. You should too for writing if you're serious about it.
- Writing has a very logical format to proper syntax and all that normally. But it's an artform too. You can make anything mean anything in any way (if you weigh any meaning to anything) and mean anything you can say on any day.
credentials: im a journalist
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