Once they become fluent, most professionals seek to improve their writing skills to rock those emails and reports.
This – as you can foresee – comes with a price, as soon enough they find out that the tools they used to enhance speaking skills won’t be that useful to improve their writing.
Writing is a category on its own and it needs to be dealt with appropriately.
Over the years, I have developed my writing so much that lately I feel much more comfortable writing in English than in portuguese. If you are on your journey to improve your writing skills, listen up, it pay offs a lot. Think about the smoothness you’ll get by avoid all those àáãê that bother us so much when writing in portuguese. At last, I feel free to write like a freaking composer as I – hopefully – bring something to live in these lines.
Now here are 3 tips to improve your writing in English
1 Get yourself a journal
If you haven’t heard about journal, let me tell what it is. This is your notebook for ideas, insights, to do lists, quotes, reflections, contemplation and all-things-possible to write. Maybe you believe you don’t need this but trust me. Probably you do. Also, it’s a good way of cultivating a good habit. So far, I’ve used over 15 journals and still counting. There are no rules as per how you should write but be sure of this: the more you do it, the better you’ll become at it.
2 Read
Probably, you saw this coming. Writing a lot can only take you so far. High quality writing emerges when your mind can make sense of some of those ideas your read about. It’s magical how words you read about will effortlessly come to you. Ideas will flow in this organized and well-structured manner. Reading makes it easy for you to enter the state flow. That’s my friend is the holy grail of the writing experience.
3 Activate subtitles
As a fluent speaker, you don’t need subtitles that much, but if you want to keep learning new words, do yourself a favor and use them. Subtitles make our life easier when in a midst of a fast conversation we don’t want to get lose anything. Over the past few years, I have learned more words by using subs than in any other way like dictionary or Google search.
