Learning How To Improve Writing Skills<\/h2><\/h1><\/div>![\"How](\"https:\/\/calepin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/157925612_809599836571222_4324255676506145707_n-400x400.jpg\")
Learning how to improve writing skills isn\u2019t as difficult as you may think.<\/p>\n
Becoming a better writer takes practice, and chances are if you\u2019re reading this, you\u2019re already practicing. Even if you don\u2019t think of yourself as a writer, you send text messages more often than you realize throughout the day. You write emails, post on your social media, make updates to your r\u00e9sum\u00e9, and LinkedIn profile. If your job requires it, you might also be creating reports, presentations, and email marketing campaigns<\/a>.<\/p>\nImproving your writing is just a matter of becoming conscious of your selection of words and phrases. Then identify what you can do differently to give your writing more structure and make it more conversational.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Paint a Picture In The Reader’s Mind With Your Words<\/h2><\/div>It\u2019s important to paint a picture in the reader’s mind. This is similar to when you\u2019re watching a movie or reading a book and feeling like you\u2019re part of the storyline. By doing this you keep the readers engaged and wanting to keep reading.<\/p>\n
Here is an example from a military media website I managed a few years back. One of my staff writers wrote an article about a headlamp. I mean, how exciting can an article about a headlamp be? Check out his intro. His choice of words and phrases paints a picture of the situation in your mind. The phrase – shivering uncontrollably –<\/em> puts me, the reader, into the writer’s shoes. I can picture myself being cold as hell after reading that first sentence.<\/p>\n\nI was shivering uncontrollably. My thin warm weather rip-stop Crye multicams did little to ward off the December chill in Northeastern Washington. It was 2030 hours, well past civil twilight this far north and it had been dark for four hours by this point. We\u2019d been evading by moon and starlight and had settled into our third location for the night. Freezing rain occasionally rifted over us in sheets. We huddled into a defilade to make comms via our PRC-112 emergency radio. We received a text message data burst for our next set of coordinates.<\/p>\n
However the backlight on our radio was not working. \u201cJones, turn on your headlamp\u201d I nodded while my teeth chattered nearly uncontrollably and when I hit the button on the top of my headlamp to turn it on, nothing happened. Hissed threats against the headlamp followed as I tried fixing it. However she\u2019d given up the ghost after three days in the field \u2013 the plastic frame had cracked from the temperature deviation between the day and the night and water had gotten into it. The headlamp was dead and it was the only light we were allowed. Our operation became much more difficult because of that equipment failure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Learning how to improve writing skills isn\u2019t as difficult as you may think.<\/p>\n
Becoming a better writer takes practice, and chances are if you\u2019re reading this, you\u2019re already practicing. Even if you don\u2019t think of yourself as a writer, you send text messages more often than you realize throughout the day. You write emails, post on your social media, make updates to your r\u00e9sum\u00e9, and LinkedIn profile. If your job requires it, you might also be creating reports, presentations, and email marketing campaigns<\/a>.<\/p>\n Improving your writing is just a matter of becoming conscious of your selection of words and phrases. Then identify what you can do differently to give your writing more structure and make it more conversational.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> It\u2019s important to paint a picture in the reader’s mind. This is similar to when you\u2019re watching a movie or reading a book and feeling like you\u2019re part of the storyline. By doing this you keep the readers engaged and wanting to keep reading.<\/p>\n Here is an example from a military media website I managed a few years back. One of my staff writers wrote an article about a headlamp. I mean, how exciting can an article about a headlamp be? Check out his intro. His choice of words and phrases paints a picture of the situation in your mind. The phrase – shivering uncontrollably –<\/em> puts me, the reader, into the writer’s shoes. I can picture myself being cold as hell after reading that first sentence.<\/p>\n I was shivering uncontrollably. My thin warm weather rip-stop Crye multicams did little to ward off the December chill in Northeastern Washington. It was 2030 hours, well past civil twilight this far north and it had been dark for four hours by this point. We\u2019d been evading by moon and starlight and had settled into our third location for the night. Freezing rain occasionally rifted over us in sheets. We huddled into a defilade to make comms via our PRC-112 emergency radio. We received a text message data burst for our next set of coordinates.<\/p>\n However the backlight on our radio was not working. \u201cJones, turn on your headlamp\u201d I nodded while my teeth chattered nearly uncontrollably and when I hit the button on the top of my headlamp to turn it on, nothing happened. Hissed threats against the headlamp followed as I tried fixing it. However she\u2019d given up the ghost after three days in the field \u2013 the plastic frame had cracked from the temperature deviation between the day and the night and water had gotten into it. The headlamp was dead and it was the only light we were allowed. Our operation became much more difficult because of that equipment failure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nPaint a Picture In The Reader’s Mind With Your Words<\/h2><\/div>
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