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How To Improve Your Writing

ATTENTION: I want to clear a thing before the beginning: me no published writer, me far from that. Me thank for reader consideration…um... I've written from experience (quite little).Don't laugh.

Introduction

Hello, reader. I'm willing to bet you came all the way here to find out a few interesting and helpful tips. Also, if you're reading this, there is certainly something wrong with you.
Your head hurts, your mind crawls through the deepest, darkest corners of the Imagination, trying to get the right set of ideas. You're surrounded by illusions, going nowhere. Realizing that it has been 4 hours since you struggle with a mere thought, you decide to leave it be. The next day, you come back, and plunge once again into the abyss of your mind, hoping…
And then, suddenly, it comes to you. The light, the invaluable light, unseen, hidden … and you found it! Isn't it lovely? Oh, of course…it is, in fact, your idea, it represents you in a way, and IT wants you to write it down.
So, you sit on a table, in a chair, then lay down on the bed…then crawling on the carpet, afterwards climbing the walls, having ‘one tiny little problem': you can't write anything!

OK, if you're a perfectionist like me, always in search of the best word, you know what I'm talking about. You've felt it too, haven't you? Do not despair, my friend, for this little tutorial will surely help you.
If you're a beginner, and don't know where to start writing good stuff, I bet this will help. It also contains some tips for a creation in progress…maybe you just stalled, who knows.
Remember, the tutorial is focused on fantasy when giving examples, but it tries to help everyone, especially if they don't need examples from their own genre.

General considerations

This tutorial is intended to help you write well, really well. You have to remember that it will not help you if in need of any ideas or plot construction tips. In this, you may want to search for help in other places. Try ‘Basics of...