And then, choose words that make the text sounds personal. It is important to write as if you are talking to an individual than a collective group of anonymous web surfers (Garrant, 2006).
The choice of using active or passive voice is important to make a proper writing. It is more than just an aesthetic tool because it could contain moral and political value.
You can use active voice to shorter the sentences and make it easier to be understood (Garrant, 2006) but in order to show the "victim" of action, it is appropriate for the sentences to be passive-aggressive. Here are tools you can take (Clark, 2008):
- Active verbs show the action and reveal the actor
- Passive verbs call attention to the receiver of action and show the victim.
- The verb to be links word and ideas.
After that, use descriptive verbs and nouns. Your strong verbs save words, create action, and reveal the players at the same time (Clark, 2008). It such kills two birds with one stone.
Now you gonna ask me, how about the adverbs? Sure, you can use them to change the meaning of verbs. As an example, "he smiled mischievously" The word 'mischievously' spices up the verb.
Fourth, be imaginative. It is associated with previous point which talked about describing through words. You can be a quack who uses similes, metaphors, analogies like scalpels and sutures (Garant, 2006). We know that world inspires us more than we think, so you can visualize metaphors and analogies when writing.
These tools above can be effective if you comprehend the complexity of combining them all. To me, digital writing is an elaboration of art and theory. That is why I learn to write more and more and I hope so do you.
So, would you like to write a nice poem for me?
