How to improve our writing

7 Simple Ways on How to Improve Your Writing Skills

How to Improve Writing Skills As a Beginner

1. Write Every Day

One of the best writing tips I can give you is to write every day. You need to practice writing to become a better writer. Can you write about anything? Well, yes, you can.

I own several blogs and write about various topics from parenting tips to pregnancy tips to freelancing tips to budgeting tips.

The fact that I’m writing online content in various topics helps me maintain my writing skill and helps me gain more experience writing for an online audience. As a new writer or freelance writer, it’s probably best to kill two birds with one stone by writing every day in your niche.

This can help you build your writer portfolio and improve your overall writing skill.

Other ways to incorporate writing every day is to write social media posts. If you have a Twitter profile or a Facebook profile, start creating a post a day and write two or three sentences on what you’re promoting or doing.

This can help you with copywriting techniques and paring down your words to fit a social media post.

2. Create an Outline

On of the best ways to improve your writing skill is to create an outline of everything you write.

This is especially true if you land a freelance writing job.

Clients want a coherent and complete post, so having an outline can help make sure you include everything your client wants.

For me, I think about what I want to write about and create subtopics and then other ideas I want to write about. For more help, you can see how other freelance writers and bloggers develop their writing process.

3. Read What You Want to Write About

Okay. Reading can also help with improving your writing skills as many of you know. This is the same for freelance writers. If you read what you want to write about – your writing niche – then you’ll effectively become a better writer overall.

Why?

Well, you’ll understand your niche better. You’ll also read from other bloggers and writers and marketers on their take on your writing niche. How do they talk about the popular health food called Keto bombs, for example?

You also get to read how these writers use their words and write sentences for an online audience. All of this can help you develop your writing skills.

When I began as a freelance writer, I read a WHOLE LOT about freelance writing and blogging.

I absorbed HOW each blog post was written, how they structured their sentences and the type of language they used into my own writing.

4. Choose Simple Words

Keep it simple, sam (K.I.S.S)!

You may think you sound smarter if you use complex words – but that’s not true.

In the online world, you want your writing to be at a 4th-8th grade reading level.

That’s right!

There’s no need to write a blog post like your thesis paper for college. In fact, that probably won’t help you gain blog traffic or clients.

What’s better is to ditch those big fancy words and use simple, yet effective words when you write. It’s almost like you’re writing as you would be talking – just without much slang and ums.

5. Convey Your Message Easily

Clients want smart writing that’s engaging and will capture their message perfectly.

As a writing tip, you need to learn how to convey that message from your client easily in your writing. This means not being too wordy when describing things.

Now, don’t get me wrong – I’ve been known to be a tad wordy at times in my writing, but I think I make up for it with my ease of writing.

That’s why it’s important to have that first draft. Write and then let it sit.

You have to take the time to transform that first draft into the article you’ll submit to your client. This may mean cutting entire paragraphs, or changing ideas around.

6. Avoid Filler Words

Filler words like: that, very, just, really, etc.. are just that..filler.

There is no need to add those extra words in your sentences, unless it’s there for intention. I work hard not to have those extra filler words and I often do, but I’m still editing my work and trying to catch all those extra words before I hit publish!

I know I’m not the best writer. I don’t have an English degree. But, that hasn’t stopped me from making a living as a writer! If I can do it, you can too!

There’s a balance of using enough words to convey your message. This will take time to develop and help you improve your skills as a new writer.

7. Keep Sentences and Paragraphs Short

If you’ve noticed in this blog post, I’m generally writing one sentence paragraphs.

This makes it easy for you – the reader – to read my content. If you want to become a freelance writer and write online, then write shorter paragraphs and shorter sentences.

Online users don’t have the best attention spans, so make your writing easy on the eyes!