5 Indicators of Amateur Writing.

If you're guilty of these five indicators, (or should I say sin-dicators?) your writing might come off as rather amateur to your readers:

Okay, so this is going to be a short but relatable blog:

1) Excessive punctuations. 

Especially exclamation marks (!!!) or ellipses (...) or these (?!!), (!!?), (...!) PLEASE STOP! This doesn't look good. Speaking from experience here. It will jar your readers and make them forget what a normal/healthy reading experience feels like.

2) TOO MANY CAPITAL LETTERS.

Capital letters are used only when you want to portray someone shouting or screaming. Don't use capital letters merely for the sake of emphasis. You can italicize your words if you want to emphasize but please refrain from over doing that. If your dialogues are relevant, your readers will automatically know which parts carry emphasis.

3) USING FANCY WORDS.

This is a big NO NO. Using fancy words like 'nefelibata', 'fernweh', 'cacoethes', 'confusticate' and other words that you like the look/sound of, without any idea of how they should be used, is worse than blasphemy in the writing world. Take my advice, don't use them at all. Using beautiful words won't necessarily beautify your writing. They'll only irritate your readers.

4) Using same sentence patterns or beginning and ending your sentences in the same way.

This can make your writing extremely monotonous. Bring variations in your sentences. Try combining long and short sentences. And cut out the inane subject-verb-object pattern. 

5) YOU. ARE. NOT. SUPPOSED. TO. WRITE. LIKE. THIS. Nor... like... this... WHY? BeCaUsE. No. oNe. eVer. sPeaKs. LiKe. tHis. Please try not to scare your readers.

Hope you found this blog useful.