ʜᴏᴡ /ɴᴏᴛ/ ᴛᴏ ᴡʀɪᴛᴇ: ᴘᴜʀᴘʟᴇ ᴘʀᴏsᴇ

empressium:

Recently, there have been a lot of people asking me how I write, how I do the thing with the words, asking me to give them advice and I thought rather than making a huge list of things you can do to get better at writing, I would combine their requests with a little something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. 

So, here’s how not to write, or things to avoid if you want to produce good writing. 

———— I’ve had this bone to pick with the tumblr rp community for a long while, and since sleep seems to be avoiding me at all costs, I thought I’d put some of the dead time to use, be the devil’s advocate, and pick this damn bone: over-done, blatant-thesaurus-abusing, purple prose. 

If you’re looking for nice, DO NOT PASS GO; DO NOT COLLECT $200 because in all honesty, I’m 1-800-DONE with a lot of the writing I see being praised on tumblr rp.

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