How much has your writing style changed?

My writing style really did change. First, I did dialogue horrible and never had many paragraphs. Now, however, it's a lot more smoother and cleaner. And, as always, I write like how I speak

 

When I started out, my writing was kind of here and there in terms of stuff. I rushed a lot and a normal chapter was less than 1k, which is only a few paragraphs. Dialogue was pretty odd too and I hadn't put forth the same effort that I do now.

On my current projects, I've learned to stretch things out. Take in the details, atmosphere, descriptions rather than put it straightforward. A lot of people who've read my stuff from the beginning have noted on how different I write now than I did back then. My current project is now running about 7-10k per update, which I feel is much more appropriate for a chapter sized length.

 

Since I do not write as much as I used to, or really at all anymore, I would say I have gone negative. I am not really a good writer to start, having not written weekly like I used to, I am surly no better.

 

I can say that my writing ability and story telling abilities have changed for the better over the years. If I were to open my old journals I would most certainly make myself gag from both the writing and the actual stench due to age.
The biggest improvement is actually due to writing my first story from start to end. If you look at the early chapters of A New World and compare it to the later ones you can see how I learned my own style as it grew. For this reason, the only BIG edits I made to the chapters was the writing of the first few chapters to avoid leaving a bad first impression.
So yeah. I've definitely grown positively.

 

I used to be horrible at handling a story's tone, with almost every scene having a drastic shift from goofy to dead serious because I felt the need to fill every story with needless slapstick and 'randomness' (I was 10, ok?) which was especially jarring in some of my darker stories. Fortunately, I've learned how to balance out the comedy a little more as time went on.

Also, I was really bad at creating personalities for my characters because I was scared of making them 'too serious'. All the main characters had the same joking, adventurous personalities, they were all practically clones of one another with nothing to set them apart except their names. This is one of the things that makes it so hard for me to read my old Wattpad stories...

 

My style has changed for the better over the years. I used to be really bad at immersion. There was pretty much no description and no real feeling there, and the characters were either typical tropes or clones of each other. Also, the pacing was pretty terrible. Luckily I've been getting better at creating characters with distinct personalities, faults and all. Description I still sometimes have trouble with, but that has been getting better as well.

 

Do you like reading a literal wall of text as your fanfictions? The first story I wrote was 78,000 words of pure texts. No spacing what so ever. I'd also spend half a page describing a room in detail, making a picture perfect image of the room for no apparent reason. Not to mention that the main character had little personality and there was very little "story" to it.

Now it hasn't been that long since I wrote that piece but I have changed considerably since. Big thing, I now write with paragraph breaks! Shocker! I have toned down my description to a little more than what's necessary for the plot. Through all of this writing, I think I've found my style, a logical and down to earth type of writing. I find it trouble some to make poetic pieces and prefer to just describe the event for what it is. On the other hand, this logical look has helped me with action scenes since the character's usually don't have time for fancy thought. I have improved dramatically from my first fanfiction and all of these changes are going to help me with my original stories.

 

Let's see...I would like to say that I was god awful with writing stories back then. Because literally my stories has no balance pacing nor any logic to them. Plus they're written like it's a script and most of the scenarios didn't start off well. They were so bad that I deleted them due to guilt...which makes me feel guilty now for deleting them. Because I wanted to know how much I've improved from those stories. But anyway, as time pass by, I'm beginning to learn that rushed development and pacing isn't the best move to go for in your stories and my grammar/punctuation has gotten better...just a bit. I'm still learning how to improve my grammar/punctuation, even though they're way better than before. And also, I've learn to examine what people wanted from an develop character and apply that knowledge to my current fanfic right now. Which that fanfic itself has an interesting history behind it due to it also being one of those failed stories I tried to tell but for some reason, I persuaded myself to keep the fanfic alive. Keep trying. Because out of all the stories I've created, I've grown to have a strong bond towards this one. But anywho, my writing has gotten better than before but not like super improved or anything. n_n

 

I have improved quite a lot in regards to professional writing, such as papers, and reviews. I am not too sure how my story writing has developed, seeing as I had to put it on hold for a bit to focus on my studies, but I am keen to find out how it changed and to start improving again.

 

My writing style actually changes often, sometimes I'll be writing lots of dialogue while other times I can write blocks upon blocks of text. But compared to my older writing style, I have started using slightly more complicated words, I've been using third person's PoV more, and my writing has grown a bit 'calmer'.