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Tip #3: get someone else to read it Probably the best tip out of the three, the best way to spot common mistakes is to get somebody else to read your work. It’s great because they have a fresh set of eyes which hasn’t been staring at your work all day long and will seriously do the trick.

You’re being mean. Show them what you’re made of!

By hello095

A star A light that guides the way A treasure that clouds can hide One star Unique to the mind’s eye Special to everyone The stars A milky dream to see The same. But still unique

Ernest Hemingway

When I think of wise, I think of attributes such as reflection, perceptiveness, and insight. In books, I’ve read of many wise old mentors but hardly that of wise young characters. Why is that? Can young characters really be wise? On one side, young people may not be wise considering they do not have many experiences to draw from. Think of a 13-year-old compared to someone in their sixties. The younger one has not experienced and grown from as many events as an older character has so it is obvious that they do not have much to reflect on. Also, younger people’s brains are still in the making so would want excitement and certainly not to smell the roses here so that is any perceptiveness gone. And insight? Considering a younger character may not have many unique experiences to draw from than an older character, they have little chance of seeing any insight and empathy into others at all. Now, the above are mainly drawn on stereotypes on how youth is seen nowadays and mainly applies to a large group as a whole so could there be any exceptions? First of all, a young character may not need many years of experience to be wise. It may depend on the quality and quantity of experiences. For example, a young character may “grow up fast” after being forced into a long-term situation. The inverse can also be said of older characters. They may be a fully-fledged adult but without many experiences to fall back on, where would the insightfulness be drawn from? Furthermore, a young character does not always need to have a plethora of meaningful experiences. Some may just learn faster than others, or they can learn from the experiences from their peers. In this case, a younger character reflects on others’ life experiences as well as their own. From this, a young character can gain empathy for others and the insight needed for them to understand the experiences others are going through. This would mean some older characters may not be as wise as a younger ones. This could be seen through the lack of opportunities the older character has and uses to improve their wisdom. On the other hand, why do we not see many wise young people? I mean, I don’t associate my younger sibling as being wiser than my mum. There is no fine line between who is and is not wise and young people aren’t exactly known for being wise. Maybe there’s something else though. Maybe wise is just something associated with the badge of growth when growing old. There may not be a set meaning. How does one “feel” wise? How would we classify a character as that? Sometimes a character does not have to be seen as wise but as their separate attributes like insightfulness, perception, or reflection. Wise is usually tied with many experiences over a lifetime, so it depends on whether you classify a young or older character as wise or not.

Varying the length of your sentences can do wonders for what you’re writing. Granted, it isn’t something which solely contributes to the impact of your writing but it is something worth thinking about. When writing something which takes place in a short period of time, it could be useful to shorten your sentences. This doesn’t need to be for a long period of your writing but probably quick bursts here and there and not used too often. This quickens the pace of the writing and so will feel as if the content in the story is happening much quicker than it could be when writing in longer sentences.