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- What is the storyline
- What is the plot
- Who is the protagonist(s) and/or antagonist(s)
- Are there any subplots
- Where does the story take place... when...
- Is it historically accurate
- How many back-stories are there
- What is the genre
- Are you teaching the reader a moral lesson
- Is it a:
- journey
- quest
- good vs evil
- romance
- scifi
- western
- law enforcement
- espionage and spies
You can answer all these questions, have the perfect plot and characters, and have the story follow an up and down pattern that keeps the reader is suspense... BUT YOUR WRITING STYLE SUCKS and nobody wants to read it.
So, how do you develop the correct writing style?
You can take writing courses but all they do is force you to practice and the teacher is going to correct your writing and give you advice based upon their writing style and does very little to help you develop your own style.
Practice is the key!!!
Write as much and as often as you can.
Make sure you are following proper grammar.
Try to edit what you have written to keep it from being too wordy.
NOTE: it is very difficult to edit your own work, because everything you have written, you believe is necessary. But you must learn to look at each sentence and make sure, it cannot be rewritten to sound better. This needs to be repeatedly until it becomes second nature... just like practicing percussion rudiments until they can be done speedily while shifting hands.
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US and China agree to framework for reducing trade tensions. After two days of intense trade talks in London, the US and China have agreed to a preliminary plan to implement the trade truce they reached last month in Geneva—which each side had accused the other of violating. “The two largest economies in the world have reached a handshake for a framework,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said, noting that President Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping must both still sign off on the agreement. Details of the deal were not immediately released but two main sticking points going into the talks were China’s withholding of rare earths and US controls on tech exports to China.
World Bank predicts weakest growth since the 1960s. Global economic growth this decade is on track to average 2.5%, which would be the slowest since The Andy Griffith Show dominated airwaves, according to the World Bank’s latest estimates. The international financial group cut this year’s forecast to 2.3% from 2.8% last year (and 2.7% as of a January prediction). “Without a swift course correction, the harm to living standards could be deep,” Chief Economist Indermit Gill wrote in the report. Gill cited “international discord—about trade, in particular” for the pessimistic outlook. The World Bank lowered forecasts for nearly 70% of economies, but notably did not yet foresee a global recession.—AE
