What goes into my writing style in English
Channel: Thoughtful Inquiry
Date: 20/04/2024

A few thoughts on why I write the way I do and a couple of tips on getting better at it
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Sorry for the noise in the background. I live right next to a busy street and got unlucky with this take. I tried to minimize it in post-production, but it didn't help all that much. The camera also flickers a bit at some point for unknown reasons.

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RELATED & MENTIONED CONTENT

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📚 Books Mentioned

► Strong first-person narrator voice
○ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
○ La Vie Devant Soi by Romain Gary (under the pen name Émile Ajar)
○ Gagner la Guerre by Jean-Philippe Jaworski

► British humour
○ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
○ Differently Morphous by Yahtzee Croshaw

► Unobtrusive style
○ The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
○ Into the Magic Shop by James Doty
○ Internal Family Systems Therapy (2nd Edition) by Richard Schwartz and Martha Sweezy

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🔧 Tools

► Definitions & synonyms
○ Dictionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/
○ Thesaurus: https://www.powerthesaurus.org/
○ Wordhippo: https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/process-form.html

► Translations
○ Google translate: https://translate.google.com
○ Linguee: https://www.linguee.fr/

► Proofreading
○ Grammarly: https://grammarly.com
○ Language Tools: https://languagetool.org/fr

Thumbnail image credit: Photo by Álvaro Serrano on Unsplash
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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
0:34 Inspirations & goals
4:06 Improving your writing
7:11 Tools
9:30 Learn rules & best practices, but take them with a grain of salt