Have You Discovered Your Own Writing Style?
By: Debesh Choudhury
Tags: Writing, Writing Tips, Blogger, Creativity, Literature

Writing | Creativity

Have You Discovered Your Own Writing Style?

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When I read a story, I try to smell the unique signature of the author. Often I find that the authors are getting lost in the crowd. Their written pieces don’t show a unique writing style.

As you get a little bit of experience as a writer, your submissions are getting accepted in big publications. But your writing style becomes a copy of the posts by the viral bloggers in that very publication.

Discovering your own writing style is essential

Unless you find your own ways of expressing the contents, your published pieces remain quasi-copies of many other posts. People will like to read your content when they get something special and different in your writing.

We often get busy adapting to the style of a particular publication. When we are busy writing texts to satisfy a certain group of publications, our own writing voice gets suppressed.

Satisfying a certain group of publications won’t get you anywhere as a writer

I understand that we (I, you, and most other writers here) are badly interested in getting our submitted stories accepted. When we receive a private note that the editor would “pass your submission this time,” our hearts break. We badly try to satisfy the content style of certain publications. On the way, our own writing charisma gets perturbed. Our writing style doesn't flourish.

That is why we see the same banal stories created by arbitrary writers appear on top publications repeatedly. We can see many stories with almost the same topics and titles. There is hardly any variation in the titles. That is bound to happen when you try to write multiple stories in a day.

How to develop your own writing style?

There is no standard way of writing uniquely. If we like writing, then we must write from our heart. Looking at a particular publication can put a hindrance in developing a unique style.

Rabindranath Tagore or David Copperfield didn’t look at a particular publishing house while creating their literary pieces. In fact, Rabindranath Tagore had founded their own publication house called Viswabharati and published all his literary creations.

Take my example. When I write a piece, I intend to publish the content on an online publication that has got many followers. I write content, put a title, attach an attractive cover image, and submit it to a publication. Sometimes, I self publish it from my page.

If I have to write quality content, I must devote the effort and time required for that. I wrote many blogs on LinkedIn. In some posts, I devoted time and thinking. Those posts are relatively better. I can’t say that I have already developed a unique style. That doesn’t come by trying. That can come only when we create under the urge of our inner mind.

Every blogger must devote time to think and write some spontaneous pieces

Time-bound writing doesn’t produce quality content. Every blogger (I think we are all bloggers, not writers) must devote some time to think about writing. Once we can create some text being guided by our mental swings, maybe we can create a few paragraphs or an essay worth reading.

We must distinguish between money-pulling blogging and creative writing. Here on Medium, most of us are money-pullers. We want more reading time so that the stories pull more money. That is a quantitative approach to creating content. In my humble opinion, there should also be some time to create content that could be considered literature.

Spontaneous content may help to find your own writing voice and unique style

If you are devoting some time to creative writing at least once a day, then there may be hope that you may find your writing voice. Sufficient time for creating spontaneous content is a must. Then your writing voice will form a unique style. The readers may identify it as your unique content.

There is no guarantee that every blogger would find a unique style. But it is sure that the quality of content would improve by considering more spontaneous writing discourses. The more the bloggers get into this type of spontaneous writing session, the more the blogger would get closer to find a unique writing style.