Think about your readers as you write.  What do you expect from them?  You want them to visualize, think, and/or feel.  To achieve that you need a good arsenal of those nasty grammar terms--adjectives and adverbs.  Writing in general is fun, rewarding, relaxing, a catharsis, a relief, and a release.  But it takes work to produce good (possibly publishable) writing.  You need tools to accomplish the task--a language grammar reference, dictionary, and a thesaurus.  The latter is especially useful for looking up better alternatives to common, over-used words.  You need a lot of different words to provide abundant description and detail without being repetitive.  If you have a particular mood you want to evoke in a paragraph, list words at the top and sprinkle them throughout the paragraph (happy, ecstatic, elated, giddy, etc.); you can then delete the list when you have the draft of your paragraph polished.  Just don't overdo it with the associated words; don't use clichés; and don't use pedantic words like pedantic. Find out more at www.wilhitepublishing.com.  Have a great day!  John W.

Here's my number one tip for writers and it's absolutely free!  Develop the habit of writing a daily journal.  Not a simple diary with entries like, "Went to work today.  Thurlow Snortflitchit was a real jerk.  Ate pizza.  Went to bed."  I mean write a descriptive journal of everything--events, people, places, along with your reactions, thoughts, and ideas.  Make your entries detailed so that you practice writing description that makes your readers visualize.  Include more than, "I saw a wreck on the highway today."  Describe the event--cars and condition, police, ambulance, activities, words if you hear them--everything.  Describe reactions and emotions, both yours and those of the people involved.  You may never use such an entry in anything you write for possible publication, but the point is to practice descriptive writing skills.

Write about your family and friends; again, include detailed description.  And this advice applies to young people regardless of whether you want to be a writer or not.  Think you'll remember your friends forever?  Guess again.  You don't have to suffer from Alzheimer's for the memories to fade.  Trust me on this; 20 or 30 years from now you'll thank me for this advice, but I won't be here to enjoy the pat on the back.  I know I had great times with my friends Luis Jorge, Jandro, Nick to name a few, but I can't remember all of them and the details of those I do remember are fuzzy. 

Taking lots of photos and/or videos will help.  They will capture the moment but you still need to write the details. 

Come back soon for more tips, suggestions, advice, and probably some useless verbage.  I am infamous for churning out volumes of fairly useless text.  Read more at www.wilhitepublishing.com.

Regards, John W. aka Dr. John-Juan aka Babylon