Five Practical Tips to Better Writing

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            Whether at school, home, or at work, you need to be an effective communicator. In today’s competitive

world, staying stagnant in your comfort zone is almost a crime. You have to reinvent yourself. You have to improve your craft to stay as competitive as you should be. You can’t afford to be left behind. It is in fact as important as multivitamins you shouldn’t miss.

Aside from verbal communication, you also have to perk up your writing skills as well. Writing is already an integral part of life. Here are some practical tips to unlock your potential skills in writing.

1. Plan what to write

Others refer this as mind mapping. I remember when I was in college, it is called outlining. Whatever it is called, planning is very important. It helps you to put in freely the ideas you wanted to convey. It provides you a guide if you are on the right track or not. Even in other tasks, planning comes first before anything else. It helps you develop some goals and focus on it.

2. Do the free writing

Once the idea comes into your mind, write it right away. It is called free-writing. This is how you make a draft. When you do your draft, do not bother too much with the spelling or the grammar. Just write and write. You might hear the phrase “right the first time”. I don’t agree on this because even the greatest writers in the world said their first drafts are a mess.

3. Review what you have written

This is not proofreading yet. Just give some time to go back to what you have already written. Then ask yourself “does it sound like how you want it to sound like?” When you do a quick review, you will have the opportunity to add in the ideas you have missed along the way. You may make some minor changes when you review what you have written so far. I do this especially when I feel drained for a moment. This is some sort of shifting the focus to relax a bit. When the ideas come back again, you may proceed to write back again.

4. Be inspired.

When you are inspired, you will just be amazed how flawless words come into your mind then to your writing. An inspiration is just anything that triggers your imagination and your drive. It gives you a sense of purpose in your writing.

5. Make your conclusion

Zero in what you want your reader to learn from your article. I have read it somewhere that the last paragraph of your article should answer the question “so what?”. Your conclusion could be in a form of persuasion, or anything that makes your reader say “ah, I see…”, or it could be in a sense of a twist. In short, it depends on how you want it to be. To each his own…

Now you have these no-brainer tips. You think you will become a great writer? Wrong! These tips, just like any other tips have no guarantee to help improve in your writing skills. No one else could help you the most except yourself. Tips, guides and advices are there always. But they are all useless if you do not do anything to help improve yourself. Just write and write and write…

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