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However, I am quickly learning from others on this site and reading there is room for improvement .
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I appreciate your answer. But I have a problem, what do you recommend to someone with no editor or writing partner to review their writing?WhiteLotus wrote: ↑28 Jun 2019, 06:25 Just by reading and writing a lot, you can learn to write to a level your comfortable calling good. Of course, people who can critique your stuff (avid readers, teachers, critique partners, editors) would help make the process faster, because doing it solo you might not always notice your mistakes.
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Learning from other writers, writers that you love, really teaches you what works and what doesn't. Reading bad books is important so that you can learn from other people's mistakes. Other than that, it's all practice.
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Finding that writing partner is so hard. I have people but not everything I write is interesting to them at the moment. I took a whole class in college teaching everyone how to be a good critique partner, kind and yet helpful with what can be done for the writing.Michelle Fred wrote: ↑28 Jun 2019, 14:33I appreciate your answer. But I have a problem, what do you recommend to someone with no editor or writing partner to review their writing?WhiteLotus wrote: ↑28 Jun 2019, 06:25 Just by reading and writing a lot, you can learn to write to a level your comfortable calling good. Of course, people who can critique your stuff (avid readers, teachers, critique partners, editors) would help make the process faster, because doing it solo you might not always notice your mistakes.
I am taking copious notes from all the suggestions here. But my current plan: lots of reading, collecting and reflecting on best lines in books I've read, and a list of writing advice books and youtube videos and a plan to take notes on each one. But I get very tired very easily. So the fire to improve runs into the wall of not enough time and the desire to just write my own stories now instead of later. How do you balance when to improve and when to just do the thing?