“Habituated Practice Can lead to Entrenchment” written by Chris M. Anson.
When writing for the public, the writers need to be open-minded about learning new ways of writing. If writers remain in the current situation, they will not recognize any other forms of writing. Practicing challenging tasks will help writers relocate the knowledge from one writing site to another. With practice, a writer can evolve and better understand how the writing is used to express and shape elements in response to context. Writing will be uninteresting if writers remain to what they feel comfortable with and tend to mold the same way each time.
Writing will be uninteresting if writers remain to what they feel comfortable with and tend to mold the same way each time.
Learning to write and using habituated practice can be harmful when it comes to writing, and using habituated approach can be harmful. Each individual’s writing needs to be distinct, unprecedented, and thought over. Habitual writing can lead the way a person depends on the setting, for this could be a leading cause of failing to meet expectations. A repeated pattern of writing can result in the entrenchment. Anson essentially states that writer’s especially those who are younger, tend to form a habit of writing that is taught when we are young. It can be challenging to develop a new routine after writing a certain way in a person’s mind. It may not be easy to release our old habits to learn new ones. To learn new writing, we need to understand the principles of deliberate practice.
Each individual’s writing needs to be distinct, unprecedented, and thought over.
- Establish your main writing weaknesses. If you could improve one thing, what would it be? Choose the right words, for instance, or simplify your sentences.
- Find out how other writers present their ideas. You can benefit from studying Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea if you wish to write with more simplicity. Try collecting your favorite example in a swipe file–a collection of writing examples that will help you learn. If you’d like to improve your word choice, see how Ray Bradbury uses strong verbs in Zen in the Art of Writing.
- You can develop your writing skills by practicing a specific writing technique and comparing your writing to the examples in your swipe file.
- Do not use examples like these to put yourself down; instead, challenge yourself to learn and take pleasure in the experience-nurture a growth mindset.
Think before you write.
- What is the purpose of your writing? The best writers understand the dreams, fears, and secret wishes of their readers and have an uncanny knack for relating to them.
- what reader issue would you like to address with your article? what is your goal with it? The goal of great content is to encourage readers to act on your advice.
- How do you plan to assist your readers in solving their problems or achieving their goals? Your roadmap will establish the logic and clarity of your writing.
- How to structure your writing. Imagine planning a 4 course meal.
- A spicy soup of chicken galangal might whet their appetite.
- Your guests will be nourished with pineapple stir-fried rice, ginger-flavored steamed fish, and stir-fried morning glory.
- Mango and sticky rice will be served as dessert.
Minimize distractions and practice on your focus—focus is your productivity super-power.
To learn how to write, nurture your writing habits.
- Make sure you make your writing a choice. If you do not make time, the writing will not get done.
- Set a small goal—like writing one paragraph or writing a few minutes a day.
- Create a productive relationship, so you can become a more engaged and prolific writer.
- Start writing, even if you do not have the motivations to do so.
- Minimize distractions and practice on your focus—focus is your productivity super-power.
- Use steps—outline, first draft, revision, final edit—and spread the work over several days so you can take advantage of percolation; review your writing when you are not tired; this will make your writing even better.
Goals don’t help you create a good writing habit. You need to put in your work and write sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph. By the end of your writing you can read back and recognize how the story has developed. Practicing good writing habits will teach the brain to learn new habits.
