What makes a good writer?
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Re: What makes a good writer?
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You need to be able to come up with interesting characters, vivid descriptions and emotionally honest conflicts, but none of that stuff will be noticeable if you clutter up the prose with extra words or unnecessary subplots.
A writer needs to be able to examine their writing critically, figure out what its strengths are, and remove anything that detracts from it.
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I think you have to have a good imagination, passion and confidence. You had to be able to "take the road less travelled". Take risks and be able to write your heart out
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A writer needs to constantly be learning ways to improve their writing. If you begin at the basic level of writing and never improve then I ask again, what is the point of writing in the first place. One great way to learn to be a better writer is to be an avid reader. Only through reading the books of the great authors that have come before you can you truly better yourself.
There is much more that could be said on this topic by my last thought is this. A writer needs to enjoy their work, and continually be writing. Only through writing can inspiration flow, and if you don't enjoy what you do then you won't sit down and put words to paper.
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Similarly, there are some writers universally accepted to be geniuses who very few people will ever read - high literary fiction like James Joyce and Eimear McBride. Books that are difficult to get through.
So I guess it comes down to what you like personally. But at minimum I'd say a good writer needs imagination, a love of language, to be an avid reader, and a willingness to keep writing. I agree with Mpruett-09 - you can only write through writing. It's like turning on a tap you haven't used for ages and finding the water's sludgy brown and horrible. You have to keep running the tap every day. And when it's not coming easily and you're writing crap, you have to be willing to keep slogging away at edits.
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