How to Develop Your Own Unique Writing Style

We all learn reading and writing at an early age.

These two are special gifts God has given to human beings. These abilities make human beings intellectual on a different level than other living creatures.

You cannot imagine if humans did not possess these characteristics what they would have done on this planet.

In addition to that, there are so many languages all over the world and the invention of them is the biggest achievement of human beings.

All living species communicate with each other in some or the other way. Communication is a medium that involves so many types.

Human beings stand out in this field as they communicate through talking, or sending messages.

Writing is a key factor of communication and it is also done in several ways.

Communication involves direct and indirect methods in which two people can talk in person or through any medium.

When you want your thoughts to reach thousands of people at a time, you communicate through writing blogs, columns, articles, letters, and so on.

Writing is divided into many sections which include general, specific, science-based, fiction, and so on.

Writers write on specific subjects and publish them for the people to know what they think.

There will be many like-minded people who would appreciate the writing and follow the writers.

Writing: As Mandatory and As Chosen

When we start our journey of education, we go through some subjects which are mandatory in our educational course.

We learn all the subjects and appear for examination which needs to answer the question papers.

We meet the real writing here first time in our life as the examination is the place where you have to write without any reference documents.

Whatever we have studied we need to put it on paper and reach maximum perfection which results in our grades.

You write the whole matter concentrating on the subject and this is the first step of developing writing skills.

What you write is bounded in a specification and you will not get a good result if you write on something irrelevant to the question paper.

This is the way we all start our career as a writer but we are unaware of that.

We experience freedom in writing only when we write on some subject voluntarily, which means when there is no compulsion whether to write or not.

It is the choice of the person and therefore results also are person-oriented. If a person wants to be known as a famous writer, there are a lot of things he could do to gain that title.

Importance of Writing

We always take writing lightly if it is not a mandate. Further, almost everyone underestimates the importance of good writing skills.

Writing is considered optional but in reality, it is a very powerful medium to express.

It is, along with spoken words, the oldest form of communication to date. Before the invention of computers and mobiles, the whole world used to communicate through letters and the radio messages.

Even before the invention of languages, there was a way of communication through ‘signs.’

The messages or communication was carried out through some signs (as today it is very difficult to understand what those indicate) During the study, Geologist has found many stones on which they found some signs which were used to convey messages.

Today, it might look funny but human beings have always found some way to communicate.

Whatever you are building your career in, skillful writing will always add on as an advantage in your career.

Having said that, you can understand how important it is for a writer to develop a stand-out style to become a successful personality.

Readers usually follow the writing and not the writer so it is imperative to sharpen the only weapon you have with you and that is writing skill.

Just think if you are writing similar to other writers around you, why people will opt to follow you?

Even in jobs, writing interesting e-mails, using crisp words, making competitive project report value you more than other average people.

One cannot send an e-mail to a boss or colleague which is hard to understand and carries a lot of errors.

Then think, if you are a professional writer can you make such silly mistakes?

Of course not, that would be the end of your career whatever famous you may be.

Writing: As a Career

If you compare the career options, writing will come last or it will not come at all on many people’s lists.

There is a perception from the beginning (don’t know from when this started) that a writer by profession cannot be rich.

The reason for this was, there were very few outlets to sell your writing, novels were the only if I would dare to say.

Now, novels were read only by the richest people or people who had a hobby of reading. Therefore it became the biggest hurdle in choosing writing as a career.

Even many renowned writers were not full-timers but they wrote because of passion.

It took many years for this passion to become an earner. As more people were educated the demand for reading increased and with the ever-growing technology people met with several sources of communication.

The fact is, in today’s advanced world, there is no limit to get success in whatever field you choose.

But again, success does not come without hard work and skills, so here we can learn some ways to develop your own writing skills.

Unique Writing Style Development Tips

1. Write Daily

You will develop skills only if you practice whether it is sports, academics, or career.

If you develop a habit of writing every day you may gain a tremendous advantage of honing special skills. You can stamp your own style on writing.

As we already discussed, being exceptional is essential to become a successful writer.

You can even practice writing a diary every day. As you express your feelings you will become more confident about your writing.

If you write some blog or article, ask your well-wisher to opine about it and improve upon his suggestions.

Writing gratitude and affirmations is also a better option to develop your style.

Writing small sentences over a selected subject or writing a small blog of around 400 words would boost your confidence and will give you a much-needed command over your writing.

Always select small articles, blogs, or even news to express your thoughts. Keep a tab on responses and then go for the longer articles is what experts would advise.

Read Unlimited

Writing skills are much related to reading because unless you read more you may not write your views fluently.

While reading your language understandings improves notably but remember that when you write, it should look original.

Do not try to copy-paste sentences as they will carry no value because those will not be your thoughts.

That is why you should enhance your word power by consistently reading different subjects.

The best way to convey your message is to write it in your own language but is easy to understand for the reader.

Vast reading will provide you the ideas of how to develop and write your own style.

There is a lot of material available to read about every subject practically and you can improve upon your writing skills habitual daily writing.

Keep Messages Short

When you want your readers to follow you, their needs must be taken into consideration.

Readers do not accept the content involving long and complicated sentences.

They like to read what they can easily read and understand. Do not let your writing be laced with complex and long sentences.

While you practice writing daily you can learn how to form sufficiently short sentences with a complete message.

It is essential to combine your sentences with short messages and clear meanings.

If you try to build long and complex sentences, readers would try avoiding your writing.

Agreed that such types of sentences showcase your command of writing language but it is always a risk to apply it.

What you can explain in long and complex sentences can be explained in short words too.

Work on Editing of your Content

Once you finished your writing work, you must go back for verification of proper grammar, sentence formation, punctuations, etc to make your document authentic grammatically.

Editing your document is a very important step before your work goes for publishing.

There are multiple steps included in the editing process. You can check and correct grammatical mistakes as well as punctuations.

Once you are done you need to read your document again for sentence formation.

Often people make the mistake of not editing their content and they face a failure.

This becomes a big hurdle in their career as they are not able to understand why they failed.

With the various tools available online you can nowadays correct all your mistakes at least grammatically.

Sentence formation, however, has to take care of by you as tools may not help you in this.

Your Message Must be Clear

When you write content your purpose is clear in your mind and the same thing must be duplicated for readers.

If readers don’t get any clue about what the writer wants to communicate, they will fade away.

The message you want to communicate must not take rounds to come to the point.

You might be elaborative but coming to the point directly is a better option.

If readers can’t take away the message with them there is no point however long document you right.

When you write keeping your readers in your mind, you can write according to their thought process, what they want to hear.

Here again, reading is very important to know readers minds.

If you work on some things like reading, read the reader, before starting writing you will get long-term benefits.

Focus on Writing When You Write

With all the homework done and your decision on the subject to write, you should focus only on writing.

Before writing the final document you can also work on draft writing with important point notation.

These points written in short with their major contents will guide you to elaborate on them while writing the final content.

While you explain the points you can also decide the length of each point based on the message it contains.

It must be noted that ideally, all points have to be approximately balanced with respect to their length.

In the same article, too short and too long notes must not be incorporated.

Try to keep the same length of all points to balance the content well. This will also indicate your weightage is equal to all points you covered.

This can be achieved by focusing your writing solely and not getting diverted towards any other matter.

Things to Remember –

• Once you decide on writing, you should own the responsibility of failure or success both.
• Keep yourself open-minded to grasp whatever knowledge you can because it is going to add value to your content.
• You can become successful only if you write considering it’s your job which is going to earn you bread-butter.
• If you take it as your hobby then it is quite possible that you will take it lightly and will be denied success.
• Learn to read a lot as if it is your job. The more you read, the better you will understand what a reader wants. Read everything that comes your way.
• Try to know why you like particular writing. If you can understand why some blogs, contents are your favorite you will know the powerful factors in them.

There is a huge difference between a writer and a unique writer. There is no doubt if you want to earn wealth and fame from writing you have to be an exceptional writer.

No one appreciates a general writer and there is no fame too.

If you closely follow successful writers you will know that they work tirelessly to make their creations stand out.

They become the biggest critics of their own work and work on the editing part ruthlessly.

They can treat it as someone else’s and make appropriate changes n their final drafts.

If you criticize your work multiple times and correct it, then only it is going to shine bright.

The outcome of the final draft will satisfy you as it has passed under your critical supervision.