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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-07-16 06:53 pm

[ SECRET POST #2387 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2387 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2013-07-16 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
The trick is to read TONS of good writing, and skip bad writing (most fanfiction, er, most internet things, crappy fiction books, etc.), so you absorb the good stuff.

Find sentences and paragraphs you find appealing, save them, and consult and study them until you figure out why they look and sound so good.

Just practicing something blindly without knowing what you are doing won't help you improve (see: so many deviantart users and webcomics that go on for years without improving, fanfiction writers that never go up in quality after dozens of stories, the list goes on)

(Anonymous) 2013-07-17 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Just practicing something blindly without knowing what you are doing won't help you improve (see: so many deviantart users and webcomics that go on for years without improving, fanfiction writers that never go up in quality after dozens of stories, the list goes on)

aka: Practice does not make perfect--practice makes permanent.

(Anonymous) 2013-07-17 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
By now, my problem is that I think I've read a shitton well written English literature, but have completely lost all feeling for what would be considered "good writing" in my native language. It's terrible.