What do I do to improve my writing skills?
Nowadays, writing is one of the most important forms of communication due to the techonological advances and the way we inform ourselves. It is because of this I needed to improve my writing skills. Today I am going to explain some of the things I do to improve them as well as I will name tools and websites that really helped me to write better than I used to and that are still helping me at the present.
In the past, since I was a child I liked pretty much the fact of writing about anything. In my school I used to write many voluntary stories because I enjoyed quite a lot the process of writing. At first I only wrote in Spanish but then I started to study English and I thought that it would be funny to try to write in English as well, and I did so. In the first months I just wrote simple things and not very long texts, for instance, what I did that day or how I felt that week. It was really helpful for me to write daily even if they were simple things because it helped me letting myself go. One of the things that most helped me to improve my writing skills is the fact of owning different accounts on social media to write in different languages, likewise reading what other people write and how they write it on these websites.
When it comes to the techniques that I use to improve my writing skills, one that I find quite helpful is to find a partner to ask them to read my writing and provide me feedback. Futhermore, reading is a good thing to do cause it is a form really interesting and amusing to exapand the horinzons of my knowledge and make me know what mistakes I have to avoid or what makes a piece good enough. In addition, thanks to the new technologies we have at our disposal all kinds of websites and tools that help us improve our writting skills. The ones that I most use are: Gramarly, which corrects your grammar, Thesaurus, which provides alternative words or phrases to express better yourself and Hemingway App, which help you edit your entire writing.
All in all, writing is intimidating to many people, particulary for those who do not write frequently, but writing does not has to be a suffering. Everybody can improve their writing skills with a little discipline and willingness to learn, as everything in life. Even so, the most important thing about writing is to enjoy it. I hope you find this techniques and tools useful as I did and still do. Undoubtedly, writing is a form of art and everyone has a different way of expresion but it does not mean that it is something impossible or hard to achieve.
Widad Serghini Messoud.
In the past, since I was a child I liked pretty much the fact of writing about anything. In my school I used to write many voluntary stories because I enjoyed quite a lot the process of writing. At first I only wrote in Spanish but then I started to study English and I thought that it would be funny to try to write in English as well, and I did so. In the first months I just wrote simple things and not very long texts, for instance, what I did that day or how I felt that week. It was really helpful for me to write daily even if they were simple things because it helped me letting myself go. One of the things that most helped me to improve my writing skills is the fact of owning different accounts on social media to write in different languages, likewise reading what other people write and how they write it on these websites.
When it comes to the techniques that I use to improve my writing skills, one that I find quite helpful is to find a partner to ask them to read my writing and provide me feedback. Futhermore, reading is a good thing to do cause it is a form really interesting and amusing to exapand the horinzons of my knowledge and make me know what mistakes I have to avoid or what makes a piece good enough. In addition, thanks to the new technologies we have at our disposal all kinds of websites and tools that help us improve our writting skills. The ones that I most use are: Gramarly, which corrects your grammar, Thesaurus, which provides alternative words or phrases to express better yourself and Hemingway App, which help you edit your entire writing.
All in all, writing is intimidating to many people, particulary for those who do not write frequently, but writing does not has to be a suffering. Everybody can improve their writing skills with a little discipline and willingness to learn, as everything in life. Even so, the most important thing about writing is to enjoy it. I hope you find this techniques and tools useful as I did and still do. Undoubtedly, writing is a form of art and everyone has a different way of expresion but it does not mean that it is something impossible or hard to achieve.
Widad Serghini Messoud.
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