what make you become a good writer ?

Question

Everything you've done or had done to you that has helped form your writing or your view of your self as a writer ?

Answer 1

1) Read well written books, especially current ones. Also, well written articles. (I suggest Leadership by Ruddy Giuliani, Roots by Alex Haley, anything by Roald Dahl and whatever else you like.)
2) Write. Then rewrite, until you've got it as perfect as you can on your own.
3) Have a good writer read your writing, and mark it with red ink.
4) Read the red ink, and adjust your writing accordingly.

Keep repeating those four steps, and your writing will improve. You may also want to get a good book on grammar, like Fowler's Modern English Usage. And of course, a good dictionary.

Answer 2

You can't just become a good writer.

You can practice, read, write all you want but if you don't have that *magic* than you will never create miracles.

What I am trying to say is, if you don't have that talent than you can't be a plausible writer. But if you do than education my friend is your best bet to improve yourself.

Higher your education to it's peak. This way, you'll have more knowledge about what's around you and behind you, you'll have a larger vocabulary, you'll have a touch of reality, you'll know what subjects that interest you, and you'll breeze among your thoughts and imagination through your writing.

Two more significant roles that play in an excellent writers creations are emotion and experience.

Beriefly,

Simply,

An excellent writer should have


first and foremost

TALENT

Than the THREE "E's"

Education
Emotion
and
Experience

I hope I was some help. Good Luck in your pursuits!

Answer 3

Practice of course, but also reading a lot of other authors is a helpful tool for writing. You pick up on how to make thoughts and images flow into words that create vivid pictures in the readers minds eye. Creative writing techniques are also helpful. Choose a topic, or an emotion and simply write words with the only goal in mind being to be as expressive as possible. It's a good exercise.

Answer 4

Read what other good writers have written. Pay attention to spelling and grammar. Check facts. Organize your thoughts. Avoid cliches. Get a good thesaurus. After you've written something, read it back to yourself, out loud, to see if it sounds the way you want it to be understood. If not, revise.
If you're writing fiction, keep it plausible, even if it's fantasy.
Above all, be your own worst critic.

Answer 5

Read good books by authors you admire. Study what makes their writing so effective and engaging.

Also....have a tough editor on hand to save you from your mistakes and indulgences. Editors are often overlooked, but a good one can make a world of difference in "the craft".

Finally, revise, revise, revise. Never feel that it all has to be right on the money on the first draft. Think of it as a huge chunk of clay that you can go back and reshape time and time again.

Answer 6

there are two factors to developing as a writer:

1. reading A LOT. practice! and read from many areas...
2. writing A LOT. practice, practice, practice.

Answer 7

WoW....
Well, I don't even know what to say to you.
I mean, just LOOK at the way you phrased the question!
You're going to need some kind of divine intervention if you want to be a good writer.

Answer 8

Reading books is what most writers and authors doo...to study style.

Answer 9

Practice makes perfect.