Read on to learn about the different writing styles out there and tips and tricks to make your writing stand out.
Know who your audience is
Before you start writing, it’s useful to have a clear picture in your mind of who is going to read your work. If you’re writing a cover letter for a job you want, you’ll have different goals in mind than if you’re writing a poem for someone you love. Those goals are going to show in your writing. For a cover letter, you want the writing to be clear, well-organized, and free of any spelling or grammar errors. For the poem, grammar is less important, but you have to use a lot of imagery to show your loved one how you feel.
1-Read More
Reading other writers’ work is one way to nurture your own writer’s brain.
Read often, and read different types of content. Making a habit of reading will expose you to different styles of writing and ways of structuring your content, which will benefit your own pieces.
2-Using your senses
Using all the senses, including smell and taste, to describe something can be a very powerful technique when you’re doing descriptive writing. For example, instead of writing “The drink was ice cold,” you might write something like, “As I drank, I felt the back of my teeth hurt and my insides clench at the shock of the cold water.”
3-Consider the reader
It’s important that you’re happy with your writing, but next in line are the readers.
As much as you want to impress the readers, you want your message and theme to be expressed above all else.
Think about what your readers would like, or rather what they need to read from you. What do you want them to take away from your story?
Having these thoughts in your mind as you write will help you shape your story in a way that will have readers giving you a standing ovation.
4-Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing is a fantastic tool to keep your reader engaged. In foreshadowing, you give your reader a hint that something is about to happen without giving away any details. Here is an example of foreshadowing: “Mary closed the door to the office, happy to finally be done with the day, and hopped into the elevator. Already focused on the weekend ahead, she did not hear the tinny sound of the telephone ringing at her desk.”
