| After writing for some time you will probably find that your writing style settles into a limiting groove. Whilst developing your own style is a good thing, when your writing becomes repetitive and predictable you might need something to snap you out of the comfort zone in order to ignite the spark of creativity again.
One way of breaking free from the trap is to avoid writing to a formula by deliberately adopting stylistic elements of other writers. Secondly, you can make an effort to extend your vocabulary.
Blooki has tools which can analyze the word count of your composition. You can see which words you use repeatedly and which you overuse. Of course words like "the" and "on" and "said" are unavoidable. But if all your smoke is "acrid", and every bit of countryside is becoming "verdant" then the warning bells should be ringing. Repeated pairings of words, e.g. noun and adjective or verb and adverb, can be as obvious to the reader as they are invisible to the writer. It is time to bring on some substitutes by using the thesaurus. |