Don’t let not having your own personal office prevent you from taking time to isolate yourself and unravel the wisdom in your mind into a winding road of words for the world to read.
While you are improving your work with Word Counter to correct spelling and grammatical errors, along with counting characters, words, sentences, paragraphs, and pages, words in real-time, make use of these eight ways to improve your writing from home.
Take Writing Seriously
As they say, “practice makes perfect,” and even if it doesn’t, practice is the path to improvement.
Writing on a regular basis helps to clear out your fear of confronting the blank page and makes it possible for you to become confident enough to develop your own style to put your writing in your own unique voice.
Workshops or Night Classes
You may have already graduated from college, but you are never too old or too smart to learn from others by enrolling in writing workshops or night classes to tighten up your skills.
Put yourself in these environments of other writers to have an audience for your work to get feedback other than your own and learn from the creative ups and downs of others.
Whether you fashion yourself as a screenwriter for movies, a novelist of fictional books, or a writer of content marketing articles and blog posts, there are in-person and online meet-ups and professional development groups that can be found on social media communities such as LinkedIn.
Outlines are Helpful
Sketch out an outline that contains your gameplan for what you plan to write so that you have a realistic target to aim for and reach with a framework of which sections you need to write, the particular order they need to be sequenced in, along with a couple of sentences about what each section contains.
When your topic has a lot of complexity, having an outline is your roadmap when you feel lost to get your project back on track.
Get Rid of Unnecessary Words
Make sure that you aren’t falling into the wordy trap of constructing overly complex sentences to attempt to sound more of an authority on your subject.
In many cases, shorter sentences can hit the reader harder to make your point with a larger impact.
Pull From Your Memories
As you continue to accumulate a growing body of work, you will have the privilege to have a catalog of pieces that you can refer back to in order to see how far you have grown in your craft and how your areas of interest have evolved.
Make the process of writing as fun as life itself can be by enjoying the thrill of reader feedback, discussions with your editors, and the ways that you grow with each new idea that you expound upon.
We all have lived very specific lives that are packed with personal experiences and learning moments. Why not tap into those unique things that you have learned along the way to fuel your own perspective while writing on a similar topic?
How can what you have lived with and lived through in your own life inform the feelings and visceral reactions that can make your text really put readers inside your vantage point?
Done Beats Perfect
There is nothing wrong with taking your time to write the most engaging and informative pieces of writing that you possibly can. Edit and proofread your work to ensure that everything is flowing seamlessly with a logical flow from topic to topic.
But even with that said, what good is taking months or even years to create work that is only in a half-finished state, each piece stopped indefinitely to jump into another unfinished project?
The more that you pour yourself into the writing process, you will be able to get your ideas across faster and know when and where to trim the fat that is slowing now the pace of your pieces to meet deadlines, track down appropriate research, iron out the micro-concepts that your entire project consists of, and reach your expectations.
Say What You Think
Lastly, as you become a more accomplished writer, you will start to feel less self-conscious and much more confident enough to start pulling away from the hidden curtain that your earlier writing has been hiding behind.
Becoming more transparent is a path towards discovering your own “voice” to say the things that could have only come from inside of you.
The more that you are willing to safely share your opinions and feelings on the page, the more interesting that your writing will become.
Surely you don’t want to sound negative for the sake of shaking people up. Writing hurtful and disparaging remarks about others is not exactly an admirable effort.
But by opening up more about who you are is a way to bring your writing to life and inform the audience that there is a real person behind that keyboard of yours.