What are your favourite writing tips?

@ImpudentIncognito

this is a good post and i struggle similarly so i'll give this a bump!

@ImpudentIncognito

Thank you so much for sharing here on 7cups. I'm not sure if my tips will work with casual chatting and texting, but I use it to write dialogue and conversations in novels. To make your situation as close as possible to a novel, we can imagine a novel with a main character that uses texting, and they want to write a message to someone, and it's from the first-person perspective. I firstly write the message normally ( it doesn't matter how long, short, good, bad, etc... it is) and then I switch to the other character (the receiver) and since it's a first-person perspective, I switch to the other character completely, and I think about my current status, my relationship with the main character (the sender), the time I will receive the message, the actions or situations that will happen before receiving the message and will affect my reaction to it. After i answer all those questions, I get many scenarios of how the secondary character (the receiver) will react. I then think about what impact I want from this message? Do I want the main character to irritate the secondary character? Annoy them? Just be polite to them? Share information? Be kind? And after I choose the impact I want, I choose the scenario that includes the actions and situations that will happen to the secondary character before receiving the message and will help get the reaction I want (which is something you can't do in real life, because you can't decide what will happen in others life). And then, the last touch, I edit the message choosing the right words to get the reaction I want (e.g. if I want the main character to irritate the secondary character, i will choose words that the secondary character find irritating, and I will delete the parts that seem to be kind - so that way I delete the unwanted or additional parts), and (but that's more common in novels and may not work very well in real life) I try choosing symbolizing words or phrases and include them in the message so I can recall a situation that happened earlier in the novel where the exact same word or phrase had been used and that situation had an impact on the main character, or both the main and secondary characters. I hope you find this useful 😅😅😅

I hope all the best for you. And remember, it's never too late to improve or learn. You can always learn new things and help yourself improve your skills. Keep growing and being the amazing you 💜💜💜

Try using Ernest Hemingway's trick: treat everything you write as a ***. Back in the days before the Internet, easy access to electricity, etc., long-distance communication was by ***. With telegrams you paid by the word. So the longer your message was, the more it cost you to send it. Who wants to spend money unnecessarily?