Non-native English speakers, how did you manage to improve your writing? I want to write blogs, tweets, and even comments, but I don't think that I am that good at writing, and I don't know how to improve it.
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the advice is simple:
Just start, it takes about 20 articles before you will see much traffic / interaction anyway, so that gives you plenty of time to improve your writing before you even have an audience (and bear that in mind, the first few articles you write are not likely to get many views, and that is OK!)
Good luck and welcome to DEV. 💗
Follow the suggestion of @grahamthedev for the most honest answer. It may take some time.
Thank you so much for the advice! I like the way you gave me actionable tips to follow.
It took me a while to write something because my thoughts were in mess and I tried to structure them in my mind before I would write something. At one point, I just decided to write my thoughts as they are even though they were not beautiful in words and didn't make much sense. And then, after I'd written that on paper, I would refactor this text.
You can also use ChatGPT to make it sound better. But still refactor the text afterward because it usually adds lots of "intelligent words" and makes the text sound like it comes from AI, not from your heart.
A small cheat to improve your own writing: read lots of well-written texts.
Reading is one of my favorite hobbies and I always prefer written materials over other mediums. Writing is scary, especially if you are not a native speaker. Thanks!
Read other examples and posts from people you like and look for their "hook", what makes those posts special and interesting. I used to write a lot of posts on Facebook about my photography along with my photos. I would post 2-3 times a week and during 2 years of posting people started paying attention to me. Eventually my posts and my photos attracted a publisher who contacted me about writing a photography as they like my photos and my writing style. 5 years of hard work and I published my first book in 2019 and I'm working on my second book, it is all just a hobby for me and I earn a nice sum of money every month from my book sales.
So my advice is to keep reading and keep writing. Try find a style for your writing, try to find something that people enjoy about you and your posst and people will start to come to you. Writing is creative, just like painting, drawing, photography and even coding, so it simply takes lots of practice and the more you practice the better you will become at something. Don't simply write 5 posts and think you will be perfect, it will take many months and several posts every week but you will get start to get better.
Good luck.
Two years of posting 2-3 times a week this is incredible! Also, writing a book is a massive project. You sure did a lot of hard work during those years! I can't thank you enough!
We all suck at the beginning, we still do, but we can say our writing has improved, and that through:
Thanks @abdulmuminyqn ! I aim to suck less in the future.
Grammarly helps a lot if you're worried about punctuation and grammar mistakes.
And it is great for restructuring your sentences to sound better!
Thanks!
I'm french and when I begin to write in English, it was a little difficult. But with entertainment, improve posts, writing comments and tweets, you can be better!
Thanks!
There's an app for that: journaly.com/
If you can and feel comfortable with, ask a native speaker to review your text, or a teacher and ask for grammar or spelling tips. You can also ask chatGPT and other LLMs to tell you what your mistakes were, and what to study to correct them.
ChatGPT helped me a lot to tackle my main weaknesses and improve my writing skills. And lastly, as someone mentioned, read well written texts, literature if possible, and I’d add study those texts.
Thanks @shinzudev !
Same here! But just write and release it, I think everyone can help us better.
Thanks!
Pick up a topic that interests you and then write about it.
If you are concerned about your English grammar you can use a GPT to address it.
I believe what they say in English: "Practice makes perfect"! ✨
I’ve heard of people copying paragraphs from texts they like. That way you can get the practice without always having to invent brilliance every time you write.
Nice tip, will try it for sure. Thanks!
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