Practice writing in your head
This sounds slightly abstract but I really mean it literally. This might sound a bit confusing, so let me elaborate on the idea.
How do you see the world? I think it would be same like other people.
Here’s an example of how you can practice writing – but only in your own head. This can help you learn how to craft your prose to read in a beautiful, elegant fashion while also being unique and interesting to readers.
Right now, I’m looking out from my balcony. The packed urban life where buildings are dense built together. It’s raining now, the droplets are hitting the awning on top.
This is a very typical visual for rain in the city.
Now, to practice the art of wordcraft without putting pen to paper, simply start describing your surroundings in the prose that you’d fashion within your mind.
Like this:
“At this moment, I stand on my balcony, the buildings clustered densely together, each a home to a person, or a couple, maybe a family. The cityscape pulsates with life, maybe too much, so dense, each fighting to shine their light in the city. Ignoring those around them. Losing sight of other human beings other than themselves.
Rainfall graces this metropolitan labyrinth, its gentle cadence giving us a glimpse of others whereas they wouldn’t have came out from their own safe home. Neighbors finally greeted each other as they all hurried to gathered the clothes hung out dry.”
This portrayal might lean more towards prose than the factual scene, but this mental exercise allows you to refine your skills by observing the world through the lens of your narrative voice. Pay attention to your surroundings, interpreting them as you would describe them within a novel.
Notice the world around you in the way you would write it in a book.
The more you engage in this practice—be it on the train, while preparing dinner (breakdown those steps, make it more engaging , or even amidst the interactions of your loved ones—the more effortlessly you’ll transcribe these scenes into your written work.
Think like a writer in order to become a better one.
