Good writers:

• Put themselves into it / care for what they are doing / make an effort
• Write interesting / make the reader say, ”It’s great, what is happening on the next page?”
• Dare to express themselves
• Write stories with a point to it
• Have a good imagination
• Make a good start and ending
• Stick to the topic
• Capture the reader’s interest and curiosity
• See things from other perspective’s but your own (have a broadminded attitude)
• Produce some in-depth personal attitudes on the topic chosen
• Manage a reasonable descriptive language / many relevant words / adjectives
   
• Look / work through things several times – check e.g. spelling, congruence
• Care for grammar
• Use the dictionary – find new words and are sure they are used right
• Use precise language
  • The right words / relevant words
  • Grammar
  • Word-order
  • Punctuations
  • Paragraphs
     
• Must know the verbs (is it irregular?)
• Have a good feeling of the right tenses
• Think of variation of the language
• Use the computer, the electronic speller
• Use English phrases and sayings
• Know written language from spoken (gonna – ain’t)
• Check the old work – don’t make the same mistakes again, again

                     “You must write, not just think you’re going to. . . . And

                     you must widen your vocabulary, enjoy words. You must

                     read widely, not in order to copy, but to find your own

                     voice. It’s a matter of going through life with all ones

                     senses alive, to be responsive to experience, to other

                     people.”

                                                                              —P. D. James

                     “My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of

                     the written word to make you hear, to make you feel—it

                     is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it

                     is everything.”

                                                                         —Joseph Conrad

                     “The task of a writer consists in being able to make

                     something out of an idea.”

                                                                         —Thomas Mann