Writing "Advice" - How You Write Is Important

We've all been in the following situation before. You find a book on a site that sounds like an amazing idea. It's got a good premise, the little synopsis at the start is eye catching and it just feels like it's going to be a fic to add to your library and go back to read it again. You save it and start to read...only to find that it's poorly written. No paragraph breaks, generally poor grammar, text speech, numbers where the word should be, etc. So, not wanting to put yourself through that, you exit out of the fic and never look back except to leave a note on their writing style. 374Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWhq90azsP0

This isn't to say that we all didn't start somewhere or that it's not okay to make mistakes (I do and most of us are just doing this for fun) but if you're honestly hoping people are going to want to read your works, you need to learn to how to write well. There's something nice about seeing the number of people read your stuff go up every now and then and good writing is going to help that. The examples I gave above for what I would say are included in "poor writing" is the bane of the existence of anyone looking for a well-written fic of something they enjoy or is good on its own. Beyond the reader wanting to read it, it should also matter to the writer that their stuff is good to them as well since you are, in some way, writing the stories you want to read.

You'll still develop a writing style as you practice, but that doesn't really give much of an excuse for some things. On a quick note, improper grammar can work well if used as dialogue for a character who uses it or if it fits the character whose POV we're looking through. While we may write in a slightly more proper and eloquent style, we all speak like people when everything is said and done. I suppose this could be a time and place thing in terms of the poor grammar, but pretty much everything else I mentioned should probably be avoided. 374Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUkMd9GqKBA

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