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Hello there..
To start off I use the site Teen Ink and I'm so happy I found that site because I get to publish things I want to speak up on, and I get to publish my story's for comments and good criticism. Well I'm not very good with that, the comments I get are "It's a good story, I really like it but theirs so many spelling errors and grammatical errors, but I should finish it." Okay, I want to because I love the story I'm writing but I get to the point where I don't believe I'm good enough to write a good story.
I'm good in English class, I'm planning taking advanced English next year, but ugh I want to be a good writer I don't know what I should do ..
Any advice? Thanks for reading.. (link)
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There are countless ways all writers could be better, but few who try to figure them out. I recently did some writing and had another writer come up from behind to look at the work I'd done in a passage of dialogue.
Their comment was that I had too many paragraphs indented.
Yeah.
I don't know your skillset or strengths, so I'm going to toss out a few common problems I see.
Grammar and spelling are the building blocks to writing something that people can read and understand. To, two, and too are obvious examples of what makes a story easy vs. hard to understand, where there, their and they're are more often mixed up. Learn 'em and love 'em (and all others like them).
After that comes the stuff that makes the story easy to read. Those include indents, capitalization, and punctuation.
Describe what people are doing when they say things:
"I enjoy picking my teeth with this icepick", declared Frank.
vs:
Frank frantically ripped into his gumline with the enormous icepick. "I'm going to have the best teeth ever!"
That's not the best example, but the idea is to show the reader what Frank is doing. It also avoids monotonous he said, she said traps. Spending a letters on description also helps to move the story forward, which readers will appreciate.
Good luck!
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