Any script is said to be effective only when it exhibits a demonstrated level of understanding on the subject. But having clarity on the subject alone does not suffice – your ability to express yourself on the subject matter assumes a significant place in determining the success of your script. Thus clear subject knowledge with a great articulation makes for an effective script.
The hallmarks of a good piece of writing lie in its effective application of the ABCs:
Accuracy, audience understanding, appropriateness
Brevity, brilliance
Clarity, consistency, correctness
Any piece of writing is incomplete unless it has a clear purpose, a definite form, and appropriateness. Acquiring a plain and unpretentious style for your writing is the best way to communicate yourself. Trying hard to appear clever in front of your readers or having a florid style only increases the risk of appearing foolish. Expressing yourself and your ideas clearly and sincerely through your writing, you are most likely to enjoy a vast readership for your writing.
How to approach your writing
Apart from these basics, few tips on the approach of writing can help you better your scripts.
Opening your script with a punch
Thumb rule for any writing is to launch the script with an opening that is striking enough. The starting statement should be such that it forces your readers to continue reading to find out what is contained further in your writing. Your opening sentence could be a startling statement or a vivid-word picture helping your reader to visualize your description.
Efficient content dissemination
Given different genres of writing, it is a bit difficult to explicitly state how information should be distributed across your writing. But intelligently adding humor or some worthy facts and case studies, you can make even the most complex subject quite interesting.
Structure
Your entire writing should revolve around a single line of thought, which could be approached in a number of ways and from different viewpoints. But the main theme should never be lost sight off.
Style
Depending on the requirement of your writing, you would choose a conversational, business or a thesis- like approach for your writing. What is important however is a clear thinking. If you have a clear thinking, you will have a clear writing regardless of the style.
These tips though aid a writer largely in his/her writing endeavor, an unforgettable truth about good writing, as in the words of Somerset Maugham, is:
“A good style should show no sign of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.”
The hallmark of a good writer is not so much in having a florid style but in his/her ability to present their writing in an effortless manner and exhibit originality.
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