3 Baby Steps To Becoming A Writer

Fatima Shirazi
Learn and Grow
Published in
2 min readDec 9, 2020

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To survive, you must tell stories.

If you look up and see your surroundings, whether it be a tv screen or billboards, newspapers laying on your table, or a website you just visited, one common thing they all share is CONTENT.
Hence, a creative piece of writing which engages its readers is a must-have for any industry today. If you want to step into the world of writing and serve different industries to earn money or you just want to take writing as a hobby, this blog is for you.
Following are the three ways I practiced myself to become a better writer. Although I have practiced them since childhood without knowing that I was practicing hobbies that will combine up and make me a writer in the future, what you need to do is to start today because better late than never!

Write Daily Diary
Every niche requires practice to excel. A fun way to practice writing is by writing your daily diary. It will not only help you in identifying yourself as a person but will help you improve your sentence building. You will learn to explain your point in a compact and well-defined manner. And most importantly, when you will look back at your diary after years, the glimpse of all the sweet and sour memories of the past will spread a smile on your face.

Read Books
Reading books is often ignored but it is one of the most important factors in becoming a better writer. If you don't go through what others write, what methods and phrases others use in expressing their thoughts via the tips of their fingers if you are not learning from others then you are an example of stagnant water which nobody likes to drink from.
You can read any type of book which appeals to you. From fictional to nonfictional, scientific or psychology-based, history books or a book on ancient religions. It all depends on what you like to read and what content keeps you engaged.

Be Passionate
Be passionate about expressing yourself. Your mind is one box containing thousands of things and ideas that can be beneficial for others. Writing more will increase your thinking capability, you will start seeing things from a critical eye. Even if at some phase of life, you get the instinct that you are not producing quality ideas or content from your own thought, don't worry. That's natural. Here's where the second step comes again. Read what others are writing and choose a topic that attracts you. Read more about that topic. Consult books or read blogs on the internet. After you have gained enough knowledge about your new topic of interest, write what you learned or think about the topic.
This way, you will never stop!

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