Week by week, your sentence structure will improve. Perhaps more
importantly, your confidence with English writing will improve. If you feel
confident enough, you could post your journal publicly online by writing it
as a blog. Each day, publish a new post of your timed writing.
Rewriting Is The Secret To Good Writing
Reading for pleasure and daily timed writing are the foundation of your
English writing practice. However, you will not become a great writer by
only using these two methods. In fact, your timed writings will probably
never be great. They’ll always have mistakes and problems, and that’s fine.
In fact, your imperfect journal writing will be in good company. This is a
secret that few writers discuss, but all know: almost all first drafts are bad!
In other words, even professional native speakers, who get paid hundreds of
thousands of dollars for their books, can write badly. All writers make
grammar mistakes. All writers make spelling mistakes.
Great writers know that the secret to good writing is rewriting. You see,
with writing we have a great advantage compared to speaking. We have
time. You have time to read what you wrote. You have time to identify your
mistakes. You have time to correct those mistakes. You have time to
completely rewrite everything. You even have time to show your writing to
other people and get their help!
For casual writing, such as a blog post or email, it’s not usually necessary
to rewrite. However, for important communication such as business
proposals, school essays, important emails, professional articles, etc.,
rewriting is absolutely essential.
The good news is that you don’t need to write perfectly. It is acceptable
to make mistakes in your first draft. We all do. It’s even acceptable for your
first draft to be terrible. With writing, only the final draft is essential and it
must be mistake free.
You create your great final draft through the editing process. First, use
timed writing to quickly write your first draft. Get your ideas on paper.
