Do you ever read your content and wonder …
Why is this not better?
But then you struggle to decide what’s actually wrong?
Being your own writing teacher can feel like a tough task.
After sweating over your draft, you need to decide what’s good and what needs improving. It’s a matter of tough love for your favorite sentences and precious words. You have to scrap sections and scrub off the dirt to communicate your message with power.
But how can you spot your writing weaknesses so you can let your words shine?
Focus
Focus is essential in almost everything you do. Without focus, you could have the best skill set and still produce average work dues to errors and complacency.
Every writer wants to stay focused, but it’s not easy. You have to teach yourself to stay focused, whether it involves conditioning your body or tricking your mind.
Do whatever is necessary and within healthy limits. When you start writing and reading routinely, your body and mind start responding to them as the normal order of your day.
A Rich, Diverse Vocabulary
We are not talking about having a rich vocabulary only, but also using the words expeditiously.
This diverse vocabulary should make you write pieces that are not readable and make your readers slave through their reading.
So, you should always make sure that you choose (from this excellent vocabulary and diverse word choice) the right and unique choice of words that would look appealing to your readers.
A Burning Passion For Reading
I hear a lot of writers self – published writers to be specific – say that they don’t like reading. For them, writing is a natural talent that doesn’t need to be nourished by reading.
One thing they are oblivious of is that without reading, they can’t understand what they are doing wrong, what they’re doing right, and other things that made other writers successful.
Organized Writing That Follows A Logical Flow
If whatever you’re writing doesn’t flow and therefore isn’t coherent, it is nothing but utter rubbish!
Your writing needs to show a naturally logical progression of thought and must be easy to read for the intended audience. If the progression doesn’t make sense to your reader, then who are you writing for?
Creativity
For professional writers, creativity is of the greatest essence. It is even more indispensable for fiction writers.
Our goal as writers is not to bore our readers to death. We always have to think out of the box to craft pieces that will win the hearts of the readers and make them want more of our content.
A good and wonderworking—and sometimes libertine—imagination is necessary to craft unique, stirring pieces.
Clarity
This element goes hand in hand with the organized writing I discussed in strength number 4, your writing should be clear enough for your readers to grasp and appreciate the ideas in your content quickly.
For blogs, newspaper articles, and magazine pieces, writing chunky paragraphs is—for lack of a word—taboo. You should always be conservative with the size of your paragraph and be straightforward with your explanations.
A Unique Writing Style
One thing all successful writers have in common is a unique style. For example, when you read anything by Dr. Seuss, you understand that his style involved the use of mirthful new words. The best writers write using a distinguished voice or style.
You have to discover your writing style—and for many, it just happens naturally and in some cases, it’s the readers or critics that notice the uniqueness of the writer.
Understanding Your Audience
We write because it’s our passion, but if we think about it, that is rarely the sole reason for writing and publishing our work.
We want our audience to love our content or appreciate the message in it. So, it’s all about our interests, but also the needs of our audience.
Armed with that knowledge, you can craft pieces that strike a chord with your target audience, leading to the success of those pieces.
How to become your own writing teacher
- Let’s not pussyfoot around it.
- Improving your own writing is a challenge.
- When you don’t have a teacher to cheer you on, it’s easy to feel down and worry you’ll never be good enough.
- So, remember to stop negative self-talk, and cheer yourself on instead. Your writing journey should be fun.
- Focus on one weakness at a time. Start at the top of this list, and work your way down—tackle the weaknesses one by one.
- Embrace your learning experience.
- Treasure your writing moments.
- And remember how lucky you are to have time to write and improve your skills.
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