Ways to improve fiction writing/prose

[BienvenuJDC]

I'll share more about this later. But this for now...

I also want to write. One thing to consider...

Don't think about what to write...it can't come from the brain, let it flow from the heart.
Immerse yourself into the setting and write what you can see around you. I have other ideas about how to write, but we cannot become to analytical about writing.

Use the Force, Luke!!

[MarkBastable]

...it can't come from the brain, let it flow from the heart....

Just in the interest of balance, it ought to be said that not all writers agree with this. In fact, the heart/brain, flow/plan, analytical/emotional, slog/muse debate is never-ending. Me, I don't think it's that binary, or even that two-way. But there are many supportable views about how it can - or should - be done.

[BienvenuJDC]

Just in the interest of balance, it ought to be said that not all writers agree with this. In fact, the heart/brain, flow/plan, analytical/emotional, slog/muse debate is never-ending. Me, I don't think it's that binary, or even that two-way. But there are many supportable views about how it can - or should - be done.

I agree totally, but I think that the brain power should be enacted in the pre-planning structure so that the work might have some sort of direction, and then in the editing and second/third draft revisions. However, there are part of the brain/mind that cannot be accessed logically.

[xtianfriborg13]

I'd also try the classic advice of trying to mimic the writers that you enjoy; as you learn to replicate their voices and styles, you'll find your own as you're in the process of garnering your own skills.

I do this a lot! I'm now trying to do my own style in writing because, well, I don't want to be someone who only mimics good writers.