What Are Writing Skills?
Writing skills are things you learn over time and perfect. Skills are things that make posts on blogs, articles, stories, etc. so much fun!
They make writing better by adding synonyms, hyperboles, and descriptive sentences to your work that relates to the subject.
When you’re trying to boost your writing skills, it’s good to take a look at your grammar, your main language that you are writing in, your formatting, and your organization. This can be a bit difficult for some writers, but—more often than not—those that find it “difficult” are the ones that end up falling behind in terms “writing skills.”
They may find comments constantly correcting their grammar, their usage of similes and metaphors, their pacing and so much more.
Step One: Pacing & Organization
Keeping your work on-point and organized helps you in the long run.
For example, if you’re talking about reading and writing, you wouldn’t want to abruptly talk about—for example—drawing and art, especially if that form of art you are talking about has nothing to do with writing at all.
Talking about a portrait of a famous artist or writer would be off-topic.
You could add it to your work, but in a section separate from the main point if it doesn’t align to the main reason of your article, blog, etc.
For pacing in fictional and blogging, you want to make sure you don’t just jump so quickly from one topic to another. It can leave your readers confused and wondering what just happened, feeling less emotional about the scene, and not fully understanding the situation. Maybe you wrote it so quickly that there are several grammatical errors that you missed and now your audience is wondering what you even wrote in the first place!
Don’t let that happen.
You should be able to write in a very understandable manner.
I would advise looking at other people’s work to fully grasp this concept—check out authors and writers on Medium and Substack or any other platform you can to get advise. Even Wattpad would be a good site to start looking at writers since they write millions of e-books all the time. Some even end up getting published and brought to stores!
Step Two: Add Synonyms, Similes and Metaphors that are Easy to Understand For Your Readers
The subjects listed above help a writer’s work seem more vivid, descriptive, and interesting.
When someone looks at your work, you don’t want them to think:
Where’s the important information? What’s the point? Why am I reading this?
They should be wanting to read more!
If they don’t you aren’t publishing for the right kind of audience or you aren’t attempting to fix mistakes. If you have a rough draft of your writing in Google Docs, I would recommend keeping it and then opening another one to work on writing it all over again—but with your prior Doc as a reference or “back-up” if things fail. That way, if there are mistakes, you didn’t completely write over the entire draft—you still have something to work with!
Things to Keep in Mind
I don’t have a degree in this subject—I’m not a teacher, a famous author, or anything that’s taken seriously.
I’m a writer, however, and I write stories on AO3 and Wattpad, along with blogs and articles on Medium, my website, and here on Substack.
If you’re new to the writing seen, even looking at fan fiction may help you in some cases. Just take a look around and try not to get overwhelmed—because, trust me, we all do.