Here, we take a look at some top tips for improving your written English.

Openers

Here are a list of pre-made openers that will soon have you writing like a pro. You can use these in any style of writing and I’ve added a couple of comments. It might be useful to change the names (nouns?) around, but you’ll get the general idea.

Opener: The man swayed in the doorway, breathing deeply, he looked across at the fireplace. The flickering flames danced across the room as the howling wind slammed the heavy door behind him. He was alone.

This opener is very useful for scene setting at the beginning of a creative piece. You can change the location, person and background scene to suit your story.

Write One Sentence

This is perhaps the most obvious top tip, but the most overlooked.

The idea is to write a sentence: “It was blowing a gale last Thursday afternoon.” and then write three more, without changing the idea: “The wind howled across the mountain pass. A roaring, deafening invasion to this normally peaceful and majestic tourist trap. Like a sea of tormented souls, the wind washed over the rocks, drowning everything in its path.”

This technique will greatly improve your writing as you’ll add much more detail and description.

Keep It Simple The most important skill to improve your written English is to write in a way that appeals to everyone.

By all means use great words such as ‘satiety,’ ‘sentient’ or ‘sanguine’ – but make sure that your ideas are not lost in the words themselves. Writing simply can convey a whole range of thoughts and create images in the reader’s mind.

The sentence: “The little black dog sighed contentedly, it had been a good day” isn’t particularly sophisticated and hasn’t any amazing vocabulary but it does get the picture across.

Here and Now

It’s far better to think through your writing as a piece that’s written for the here and now. Perhaps there’ll be the opportunity to take the story further, or write a little more about the subject later. There are really three parts to writing a piece of work, although it’s not as simple as beginning, middle and end.

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