Write to your Audience

Don’t be vague. If you want to become a better writer, you have to comprehend the pulse of your audience.

Write as if you’re standing in front an audience, in real, and talking to them. The tone should be conversational but maintain brevity.

If you’re writing reviews, for example, write your experience of using it and ideate how it will benefit blog readers. Don’t be a impassionate and detached writer. Connect with audience.

4) Build a Peer Group

You don’t really learn creative writing skills without a peer group. Being a sole writer without communicating with other writers and creators is going to clamp your style, stop you from experimenting and seeking growth.

A peer group could be a mix of targeted audience and writers who can give constructive feedback of your work. A peer group helps your writing to grow and mature.

5) Read out Loud

If you’re new to writing and need some serious improvements, read out loud. Sometimes we remain unaware of faults and mistakes because there is no one to correct us but reading your article aloud in empty space will be a serious eye opener.

You will understand whether the used language is right or too contrite, whether there are grammatical errors, too long or short sentences and most importantly, whether your message is getting conveyed or not to the targeted readers.

6) Grammatical Composition

I see a lot of blogs with good content potential but their major flaw is in grammatical composition. Coupled with the need to cater to a global audience and various English styles like American English and British English, it is easy for an untrained writer to get lost in translation, literally.

Buy a good grammar composition book and learn the basics. The placement of a full-stop or a comma can change the meaning of a whole sentence.

No one is expecting you to be perfect but if you want to learn how to become a great writer, you have to know and practice the basics.

7) Bind Yourself within a Time Limit

Writing doesn’t have any limit. It doesn’t have any beginning or an end. It’s like a straight line; you can stretch it anywhere either ways.

Therefore, it is necessary to set a time limit. Time the writing.

Do this.

For your next blog post, set a time limit of one hour, no matter what you’re writing about. Stop when the time is up. Leave it as it is and now compare it with the above parameters.

You will see a lot of scope for improvement.