How to write like a Pirate, Get readers, and other inspirational crap

Go out and read! This is very important. Reading better is important if you are a writer. While being a 抖阴社区r-reader you should be the dirtiest scoundrel of all time.

And here is how!

There are good books out there, that's obvious. The more you read the better.

Let's start with an analogy before we move on. Consider again the Olympians. The best athletes in the world! And the highest regulated event in the world.

You know, let's talk about Beach Volley for many reasons, the visual is nice, and it works. It's a 2v2-person sport fought on sand with a net and ball. And beautiful attractively toned women in tight bikinis. Don't forget that part. Now these women athletes (Yes, if you want you can image the half dressed sculpted male athletes) do many things to be the best. First, is practice.

Playing on sand is much different than playing in a school gym. Athletes must be able to move on sand without tripping which takes as much muscle memory as anything else they do. So they run, jump, dive, roll, you name it, to train themselves. Handling the ball is another thing that need practice: spiking, blocking, setting, and many other terms. Every player aspires to become the best at every skill and specialize in as many parts of the game as they can.

In order to be the best, they do everything in their power to get one step ahead of the competition, but that also means they don't let any available resource to go to waste. As you can imagine, Beach Volleyball Players watch a lot of Beach Volley, and along with staring at everyone's toned booties they do one more valuable thing. They look for things to add to their own list of skills. If someone comes up with a new and better ways to block or spike, the best players try to adapt the best of those to their own list of abilities. They don't let anything go to waste, and they never stop working at it.

There are many things to say about athletes, but this is the point that I want make: 抖阴社区rs are Volleyball players, Watching Volleyball is like Reading, and adapting the latest techniques is the same as picking up what other writers have done and adapting it to your style(s).

Here is the brutal truth, school language classes can teach you the basics of writing, and school Physical Education Classes can teach you the basics of getting the volley ball over the net and scoring points. But to be the best, or to even be just good, you have to do more than that. Even if you want to join the school volleyball team you have know more than what you'll learn from a basic educational standpoint. Beach Volleyball may have a similar ball and net but it's a different ball game from traditional indoor volleyball when you get into it.

Knowing how to write is just the beginning of being an author, it' the same as 'gym class volleyball' vs 'Olympic Beach Volleyball of awesome booties and ripped abs'. All of the passionate professionals had to trip in the sand and get sunburned thousands of times before they get to the Olympics.

Here is the point. When you read. Read to learn. Find the things you like and STEAL THEM! Make like a pirate and find those shiny tricks and make them yours. Is it cheating? Is it winning? The answer to both of these is 'yes and no'. Nobody in the Olympics make amateurs compete after just teaching them the rules for the first time, nor do they stop them from watching other volleyball players. Holding yourself back is just stupid.

Now don't plagiarize by copy-pasting someone's whole story or a huge chunk of it and claim it as your own, that's stupid and wrong. But there are many techniques you're missing out on if you think you're too good to look closer and borrow other writer's techniques. How can you even play the game if you never learned to return the ball, and I guarantee there is more to writing then any one sport analogy could cover. So read.

Learn what make characters so good, learn which fight scenes work, learn what make plots worth following, watch at how writer's describe things, and whatever other tricks you can get your hands on. Get better.

Practice, study, steal, adapt, learn, and grow.

Plagiarism is wrong, yes, but so is being too afraid to learn anything new. (Citation is another matter altogether, it involves at it's core: giving credit to the author for a quotation.)

Take pieces of everything and develop your own style of writing. Don't walk around in the dark thinking that you'll stumble on greatness, you'll just stumble on yourself. Study greatness, learn from greatness, practice greatness, stare at greatness's tight booty, and run down your own path of greatness. Because you have to learn how to stand before you can walk, and you have to learn how to walk to run, and you have to be able to run well to run longer and faster (and develop your own tight booty).