/writing/ thread

[Anonymous No.16162237]

/lit/, I want to start writing as a hobby. I recently started a job where I do legal writing (writing patents, responding to patent office actions, etc.) and I want to use the writing skills I'm developing to be creative. With that in mind, what type of beginner writing projects should I start? I was thinking of writing essays , maybe making video essays for that matter, or perhaps writing legal analysis essays, but I don't want to dive into the deep end. I'm also flirting with the idea of writing poetry, but I haven't written poetry since middle school. On a similar note, how can I improve my hobby writing without criticism from someone else? How do you all do it?

Also, let's make this a general writing discussion thread, couldn't find one in the catalog

[Anonymous No.16162292]

Step one is probably to look up Cormac McCarthy's and George Orwell's guidelines for writing academic and political papers respectively

[Anonymous No.16162302]

>>16162292
I'll do that then, thanks fren

[Anonymous No.16162421]

>>16162237
Write EVERYTHING you remember from the first 10-12 years of your life. Your earliest memories, memories from being a small child, memories from each grade, who your friends were, what your interests were, what you did, where you went, your classmates whom you no longer know, etc...
It's a good exercise just to get the pen moving.

[Anonymous No.16162520]

>>16162237
>patents
Efficiency and brevity. Anyone can be florid/prolix. This is not a Hemmingway endorsement.