From online writing to creative writing

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Can creativity be damaged, dampened by professional writing? Can writing all day for work, writing newsletters, articles, website pages, landing pages creep into fiction writing? The problem of the rules of writing for the web We've talked about it a lot: concepts like keywords , inverted pyramid, titles and subtitles, formatting, etc. are now clear, I hope. When we write fiction we don't have to worry about these rules, because we have others to follow. The rules of online writing are simple communication rules, created to adapt writing to the medium : that's all. The problem of synthesis When we write for the web, we tend to be concise.


Another writing rule: get to the point straight away, don't mince words, don't overuse terms, don't waste the reader's time. But isn't this a rule that always applies? In fiction, it's true, we can give ourselves time to Phone Number Data write something more, lengthen the story with other stories, expand the plot with subplots to make the novel more engaging. But we can't act like this on the web, otherwise no one would read us. A post of 500 words would risk becoming 2000 unnecessarily. Two different languages Seeing web writing and creative writing as different languages ​​helps. Because that's what I am, in the end. What should we consider when we write stories and when we write posts? In the first case we must follow only two types of rules: grammatical correctness and solidity of the story. A story and a novel must be written observing spelling and syntax.



The story must stand up, it must make sense. In the case of posts we must follow, in addition to the grammatical rules, those of online communication. And our articles must stand up, they must be useful to readers. What do we notice? That online writing has more rules to follow, because the texts are accessible through a medium, the web, which does not allow too much freedom of movement. In reality this is true up to a certain point: I feel very free when I write my posts. I have assimilated the rules for online writing for years now and it comes naturally to me to apply them. But they are rules that must be followed if we want to communicate and be read. Never, in any story I have written, have these rules influenced my writing. If this happens, in my opinion, it is because the concept of online communication and writing for the web is not clear.