I’ve been very concerned about how incomprehensive and completely disjointed my perplexity of writing long but understandable paragraph to either express my views or my creativity in storytelling.
I have ASD which i believe is in the diagram of “Slightly elegant and memory heisenbug.”, But I’m too woke socialist to consider using AI Tools to reiterate my statements and subtext.
What online classes and tutorial collective should I consider.
I don’t know the answer to your question, I learned stuff in school and university; I’m not very good at writing; but i was told :
Read it out loud, slowly.
Did you pause or take a breath during the sentence?
Consider punctuation.If you’re using a word with lots of syllables, like ‘perplexity’; look up the dictionary definition, then the thesaurus. Choose a shorter word, or delete it. Shorter sentences are clearer. Shorter words are often clearer.
Poetry is deliberately unclear, so don’t confuse poetry or word-play with communication; it’s word wankery. Wanking sure is fun for a small group, but it’s not clear communication.
Also, don’t be afraid to write, edit, delete and rewrite a sentence several times until you’re happy with it. Polishing anything takes time, patience, a will to start afresh, and grit (hah, there it is, a fucking metaphor, don’t do what I say).
Second the ideas for community college courses and reading more. Most importantly, read diversely. Read from “the canon” and outside it. Fiction and nonfiction. Novels and short stories and poetry and plays (the novel, as we conceive of it, only goes back to arguably 1700ish). Translations of international works. They all have something to offer.
Personally, I would recommend going to a community College course in person if you’re not able to pick it up from literature. I think the lower Gen ed courses do a good job of targeting effective communication without encouraging overly scholarly or pretentious tendencies. Because words have no tone associated with them, it’s something everyone struggles with to some extent.
Edit: Night classes are better if you want feedback from people who care more. I’d highly recommend that especially if it takes you longer than usual to drill home a new concept. Night classes helped me a lot to learn despite undiagnosed ADHD.
Immerse yourself in good books. Absolute best way to learn how to write. I’m happy to suggest some writers or books I find particularly interesting in regards to the language they use and how they use it.
I’m writing my 3rd book at the minute, and honestly, I wouldn’t overly focus on things like paragraph length - what you say is important, not how many words it takes to say it. You have punctuation marks to break things up if you need to.
Most writing is rewriting anyway, and if you want to go for a long meandering paragraph or short succinct sentences, you can work on that for emphasis and tone once you have the bare bones down.
Can’t tell if joke or not.
not ajoke
Looks like you’re doing super to me.
You don’t have to do better, based on what you wrote here.
Good. Don’t use AI.
The real world is the classroom that you’re looking for. Go write stuff. See how people respond. Unless you’re doing technical writing, you don’t require more precision. You need brevity and wit.