Hello! Today, I’m going to share three simple tips to help improve your writing.
1. When you’re writing your first draft, just write it. It doesn’t matter if it sounds dumb, write it down. You can always edit later.
2. To make your characters realistic, you need to give them fears and flaws. Nobody is perfect, and everyone is scared of something.
3. -ly words. Otherwise known as adverbs that end in -ly. Here’s an example:
“He left,” she said.
In that sentence, I haven’t told the readers how she is saying “He left.” She could be saying it heart brokenly, joyfully, flatly, whatever. If you add -ly words, it will help show your readers how your characters are doing/saying stuff.
I hope these tips will help you!
Do you have any writing tips you’d like share? Leave them in the comments!
{Image belongs to Kathryn}
Moving on to the third day of The Christmas Challenge!
Favorite Christmas Cookie
via drawingsomeone.com
Gingerbread!
They’re adorable, and so much fun to decorate.
My love for gingerbread may have something to do with this movie. ^.^ It’s just fun to squeal, “Not my gumdrop buttons!”
We have ninja cookie cutters, so we can make ninjabread men! :D
What’s your favorite type of cookie?
Me with my best friends: These people need help, but I am not professionally qualified to provide it.
let's be lost 
Good tips! I love ginger bread too! Also, good tips!
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Thanks, Magda! I suddenly want to eat gingerbread. :P
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Great tips on writing! I agree.
~Ms. AGdoll
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Thank you, Ms. AGDoll!
Just wondering, have you decide whether you would like to participate in CWWC? You wouldn’t have to write every story if it didn’t fit into your schedule.
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Hi, sorry I didn’t respond sooner!
And no, I’m sorry, but I’m not going to be participating in CWWC. I just don’t have enough time right now. :( But, if you ever do another writing camp, I’ll (hopefully!) do it that time!
And I saw that you got an amazing response! Is this your first time hosting a writing camp? It looks really interesting & fun.
~Ms. AGdoll~ :)
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Great tips! My tip would be that the pieces of your story puzzle have to always fit together. For example if your character threw a chocolate bar out the window, to put a twkstvin the story, her dog ate it and now has to go to the vet. Every story also needs to have conflict or tragedy. It would be pretty boring to read about a !and where everything is perfect and all is happiness. Instead, maybe a rebel from the “perfect” land could lead a group to defeat the perfect people and prove that people have to have flaws. Hope this helps!
-Sam
P.S,
My favorite cookie would have to be sugar cookies!
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On number three did you mean adverbs? :D Great tips! And I love that GIF. :P
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Yeah.In IEW, we call them “-ly words.” ☺
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Okay! I guess not all adverbs end in -ly anyway.
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Just re-looking through posts! :) I know this post was a while back but it’s so cool you do IEW I do as well at my co-op! :) I love it. ;)
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Can you give me any tips on how to make the tub stop leaking?, her father asked plaintively.
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Nice tips! Ha ha, do you mean adverbs that end with with an -ly suffix? I’m pretty sure you do, and I have to agree with you there. Your reader is trying to create a visual in their mind of what’s happening and in order to that, they need some more detail and description of how something looks/feels/etc.You just have to be careful that you don’t use too many, or your storyline will be difficult to follow and your reader might start losing interest. Great post!
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Thanks, Misty! Yes, that’s what I meant. :) I just call them -ly words because that’s what they’re called in my IEW class. One of the writing-related things that annoys me is when people use a whole list of “adverbs that end in an -ly suffix” (*cough* *cough* -ly words *cough*) to describe something. I mean, you can choose just one or two strong words, no need to use every word in the dictionary!
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Oh, YES! I remember IEW. Wasn’t -ly words one of the dress-ups? And yes, I have to agree with you there. ;)
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Yeah, it’s a dress-up. :) This is my second time taking the class.
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Nice! I only took it twice, because my mother thought a third year wasn’t necessary. IEW is awesome! I think my grammar in writing really turned to the better after I took that class. xD
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My mom only made my brother and I do it one year, but I wanted to do it again.
It is! Especially when my teacher gives us candy for reading our papers to the class. :D
I wasn’t really into writing before I took IEW, so I guess I can thank my teacher for getting me interesting in writing.
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Same! Yes, it teaches lots of vital essentials for writing. ;) YESSS, the treats were awesome. xD
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Sorry for interrupting, but what is IEW exactly? Is it an online class or a class you go take?
Thanks! :)
~Jaclynn~
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IEW (Institute for Excellence in Writing) is a class you go somewhere to take. You write essays, paragraphs on historical events, and a few stories. I take it at my co-op.
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Oh, okay. That sounds pretty cool! Thanks for replying :)
~Jaclynn~
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No problem!
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Also, I think it would be SOncool if you did a guest post on redheadwithabook sometime soon! Maybe I could email you some interview questions for you to answer! What do you think?
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Yes, that would be awesome! I’d love to do that. Email the questions to happyhouseofag@gmail.com whenever you’re ready. :)
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Yay! I am uber excited! You will be seeing an email from agdollawesome@gmail.com.
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Love the ninjabread men! So adorable! Thanks for the tips, I use those in all of my writings. :) Make sure you use adjectives and be descriptive but not overly because overly descriptive can be too much. ;)
<3Hope
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Cool!!
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Hi! Is today the day that you post the teams and first prompt for the writing camp? Just wondering :)
~Jaclynn~
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