Last time I spoke about this sexy smart suit you put on your writing to make it look really good. Now I will be telling you how to wear this suit and what to match with it to make it look even better.
Your style has a huge influence on your writing and how strong your writing is. Remember you want to make your writing look crispy and clean, I am sure if you do this your readers will be captivated by your writing.
You might have some smart ideas, quotes and some really great sentences. But if they don't match or go together then your writing looks like this picture, just no... its bad and never do this!
Strong verbs
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If your topic and writing is heavy and deep, make sure to have some great expressive verbs to back it up.
"To be" verbs, well chuck all those away and get creative, verbs are the make and break of your sentence strength.
Examples: From this link
Weak: My brother was being mean.
Stronger: My brother threw the ball at my face.
Weak: The sun was really bright on the snow.
Stronger: The sun shone brightly on the snow.
Weak: Being a nice person is a good way to be happy.
Stronger: Kindness leads to happiness.
Avoid Passive Voice Constructions
This is when your subject sits at the end of your sentence or when it is awkwardly placed within the sentence. Make sure your subject is before your strong verb in the sentence.
Examples: From this link
Passive: The election’s outcome was decided by the Supreme Court.
Active: The Supreme Court decided the election’s outcome.
Passive: The suspect was being held in custody by the police.
Active: The police held the suspect in custody.
Passive: Accusations were made and feelings were hurt. (Who accused? Whose feelings were hurt?)
Active: The supervisor accused his coworkers and hurt their feelings.
Increase Sentence Variety
Never use the same sentence format or pattern, you will just end up putting your reader to sleep. Changing this can be hard and you might struggle to find them. To help with this make sure you have different lengths of sentences, to many short sentences will make your writing seem childish, but very long sentences will make you loose your reader.
Avoid using phrases that the reader could guess (Clichés). But this also means that you don't use the same amazing phrase, you made up, over and over again. The trick is to keep your readers attention, do the unexpected in your writing.
Just on a little side note for self improvement. I will be doing pushups, situps and squats for the amount of $$$ I earn on this post and will give a short feedback every day at the end of each post. This will be split in equally between all 3. Any not done will carry onto the next day.