#Writing Help

Delete these words from your writing 🚫 Before we start, I’m going to give the obvious disclaimer that there’s nuance to this, and you shouldn’t take a catchy hook as a hard rule. The following words can often be deleted from your prose just because there are often stronger, more effective ways to write. That said, if there are places where you think they work, LEAVE THEM IN. Also, this doesn’t count for dialogue. . SUDDENLY: See if you can convey suddenness instead of writing ‘suddenly’. For example, you could swap ‘suddenly, the door opened’ to ‘the door burst open’. . FELT: (As in the past tense of ‘to feel’, not the fuzzy fabric.) There are some cases where this word works fine, but see if your sentence could be stronger if you described the feeling instead of just saying ‘he felt X’. For example, instead of ‘he felt agitated’, show him pacing, write his scattered thoughts, describe his fidgeting, and so on. If you need some guidance, check out the ✨FREE BODY LANGUAGE CHEAT SHEET✨ linked in my bio for a handy reference. . SAW/HEARD: Sometimes these words have a purpose, but they can often be replaced with something stronger and more direct. Instead of ‘he heard a man walking’ you could write ‘footsteps echoed down the hallway’. This can be more vivid. It allows readers to experience sights/sounds firsthand instead of filtering them through the character’s perspective. . SEEMED: Again, this word has its place. If you want your sentence to sound more direct and concise, remove it. If you want to keep an air of uncertainty, keep it. For example, you could rewrite ‘everyone seemed to agree’ with ‘a wave of applause rippled through the crowd’. . 👉  Save for later ✨  Follow @schoolofplot for more writing advice, tips, prompts 🔍  Get writing resources and freebies in the link in my bio . Tags 🏷️ #writingadvice #writing #writingtips #writingprompts #writingideas

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Writing tip: Helpful Apps For Writers 👉 Save for later! . While you don’t need anything more than a pen and paper to be a writer, apps can help you to organise your ideas, get started with your novel, or stay on track. . MILANOTE | @milanoteapp Milanote is a tool for organising your creative projects. They have a desktop and mobile app, which are a great way to keep track of all the info you need about your world, characters, and plot. This is a great one if you’re quite visual and tend to save a lot of inspo on Pinterest, or if you miss the old days of using Polyvore collections to inspire your stories. . NOTION | @notionhq I’ve been going on about Notion for 500 years. I use it to organise my thoughts, track my progress, and see if I’m on target with my wordcount. You can find the writing template shown in the reel in my bio. This app is extremely customisable, and (somehow???) free. . WAVEMAKER | wavemaker.co.uk It’s like Scrivener but free. As it’s free, it does of course lack some of Scrivener’s features, but it provides a focused writing environment, autosync, writing cards, timelines, space for writing notes, and all sorts of good stuff. . OBSIDIAN | obsidian.md Obsidian is a really flexible way to store your information. If your story has a lot of content to remember (worldbuilding, family trees, complex interconnected plot threads, etc.) and you found that Notion wasn’t for you, this might be up your alley. It follows more of a graph-like structure, where all of your notes are interconnected. It’s also free for personal use. . (Not sponsored or affiliated in anyway!) 👉 Follow for more, & let’s write our novels together! Tags 🏷️ #writingadvice #writingtips #howtowriteabook #studygram #notiontemplate #writingcommunity #writergram

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The technique that changed everything ⤵️ But first, make sure you’re following so you don’t miss any writing tips and tricks. I used to think that asking for help with my writing meant I wasn’t good enough as a writer. I USED to think that truly great writers were the ones who only had raw, natural talent… And if I asked for help, then I wasn’t one of them. Well, that was dumb. But hey, we all make mistakes, right? Which is why I felt super silly when I finally created a technique that worked… And it was stupidly easy. I call it my Signature Q&A Method, and it uses targeting questions to develop each part of your story, no matter the genre. I gave it to my students and they started writing like crazy. One of them even finished her first draft in 90 days! Want to see it for yourself? Comment METHOD and then check your DMs 🫶 (And make sure you’re following, or the DM may not go through) Let’s write that novel! #writersofinstagram #writer #writersofig #writertok #writerproblems

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Curious what you think about this one — some writers (and readers!) love rich, layered description, while others prefer to let the reader imagine most of the scene. Where do you fall? 🖋️ #writingabook #aspiringauthor #writingtip #writingadvice #authortok #writertok #writersoftiktok #amwriting #writingcommunity #creativewriting #descriptions #writingcraft #novelwriting #booktok #writingprocess writing tip, showing vs telling, writing advice, descriptive writing, write better scenes, creative writing, fiction writing, writing details, writing mood, atmosphere in writing, author tips, writing style, minimal description, book writing, writer help Creds to Tim Grahl on Twitter

START WRITING ⬇️ Hello! My name is Elin, together with my mom - we design writing tools that helps you in your writing 💌 ➡️ Find FREE RESOURCES and writing tools in my link in bio Or at notetrail.co.uk My page is dedicated to helping writers write and get inspiration and encouragement to pursue their ideas 🫶 let’s be writing buddies 👉 follow @notetrail for writing tools, tips and free resources 💌 Save for later Tags. #writingadvice #writing #writingtips #writingprompts #writingideas #writersofinstagram #bookstagram #authorsofinstagram