how can i improve my writing?

Answer 1

Here are some tips/outline of your stories -
Conflict -
A. Person vs. Person
B. Person vs. Environment (physical nature, society, external force, destony/fate)
C. Person vs. Self (w/ some element, of his own nature, physical, mental, emotional, moral).

Artistic Unity -
A. Essential to a good plot, meaning there is nothing that doesn't contribute to the final meaning. Nothing is there for its own sake and all content has a purpose.

Plot Manipulation and Fabulation.
A. A good plot should not have any unjustified turns or twists.
B. No false leads or deliberately misleading events.
Fabulation - the introduction of fabulous gothic, or unrealistic events into a setting that is otherwise unrealistic

Story Ending -
Happy Ending [no no] - Steriotypical, Hero gets girl, not realistic (good).
Writers of serious fictiopn use unhappy ernding because they raise more important issues to life.

Elements of Plot -
A. Exposition
Set the setting, and provide context for the action.

B. Rising Action
Begins with problem or complkication and build to climax

C. Climax - turning/crisis point, no return, hero MUST move forward.

D. FAlling Action - reversal, indicates change in characters situation.

E. Resolution (Denoument)- unravelling of plot complication of detail ro understanding.

THEME - controlling idea or central insight.
1. A revelation of human character.
2. Stated briefly or at great length.
3. Theme is NOT the moral of the story.

A. Theme must be expressable in the form of a statement.
B. The theme buyst be stated as a generalization about life.
It may NOT use the names of speicific characters or plot situations.
C. The theme is the central and unifying concept of the story.
1. Must account for all major detail.
2. Must not be contradicted by ary detail.
3. Must not repoly in supposed facts.
D. No one way of stating the theme of the story.
E. Any statement that reduces the theme to some familiar say aphorism or cliche is inappropriate.

Hope this helps - straight from what my IB English teacher taught us.

Answer 2

Lots of ways! I asked the same question a while back Here's the link:

http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmR.4PpJgJlq1xnv8Y8q9ULg5gt.?qid=20061009191601AAc9Lfo

But from what i know, you can try to wirte as much as possible. Keep a journal or diary, write for fun, or go on to websites where you can post your writing or write other types of stories. www.fictionpress.com (post stuff you've created.) or www.fanfiction.net (writing about shows, books, anime, stuff like that.) are good websites.

Read a lot of books, and read a variety, not the same thing over and over again...

Use a thesaurus and try to be descriptive. Use your imagination!

^_^

Answer 3

Learn basic etymology and also learn just a tiny bit of Latin, that will give you the basics and rules of grammar.

Read company press releases, they are written by absolute pro's, do NOT rely on newspaper articles, the reporters have some of the most atrocious grammar around.

Answer 4

Read, read, read. After a while, you start to get a feel for how to do it.

Answer 5

keep on trying and you will get better when you do.

Answer 6

Use a thesaurus!!!!!