![]() ![]() Leaning in, he whispered, ‘What are you doing here? My wife is home!’ Throwing her head back, she laughed. Lack of sentence structure variety in a paragraph or consecutive sentences, ex: “ Answering the door, he was shocked when he saw his ex-wife on the other side.He was shocked to see his ex-wife on the other side.” The same word is used to start consecutive sentences in serial, usually a pronoun or the word The, ex: “ He heard a knock at the door. ![]() Words are repeated too close together, ex: “He heard a knock on the door, then got up to answer the door.”.But people with “the writing knack” can tell, and it drives them crazy. What is “good” writing exactly? Most people can’t tell in fact most readers don’t care, which is why badly written books still get the thumbs-up from editors who should know better. You can “hear” when a sentence or paragraph doesn’t sound right How can you tell if you’re a natural born writer? Here are the five skillz of someone born to word-sling for a living:ġ. Hell, if a white lady can write a mediocre book about the “authentic” Mexican migrant experience and be paid seven figures for it, you can too! (The secret to her success: insider connections of course, and smartly choosing the evergreen subgenre of general fiction stories specifically written to make white people feel better about racism, ala The Help, The Blind Side, Driving Miss Daisy, Crash, Green Book, etc. Unlike football, you don’t need these skills to be successful, but they help. There are, in fact, a set of natural skills that make a person a natural writer. You can religiously follow football, for instance, and memorize all the plays and train every day like little Rudy, but if you’re not a superhumanly fast and agile freaky man-giant, you’ll never be a pro-bowler no matter how badly you want it. But it’s still probably good for you, because not everyone can be a natural even at something they’re passionate about. Which is good for you! …Or soul-crushing if you’re one of those unlucky people who are good but unsuccessful (which…AHEM…might include me…or so I tell myself so I can sleep at night DON’T JUDGE ME). If you’re good at something, it increases your odds of success, but you can still suck at something and be successful at it. Notice I said how good you are at something, not how successful you are, because success depends a lot on luck…more than most successful people are willing to admit. Like most endeavors in this thing we call life, how good you are at something depends on a combination of natural skill and drive to improve. But I AM a natural heart surgeon! I just choose to do other things with my hands… ![]()
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