HELLO??? THIS IS THE SWEETEST RETRO IVE EVER RECEIVED????? your favourite writer?? YOU'RE TOO GOOD TO ME OMG YOU JUST MADE MY ENTIRE YEAR 😭😭🫂🫂 thank you first of all!!!!!

I really appreciated your message and I'll get to your questions right away!! You're right, I'm not a native English speaker but I did go to uni for a sort of English degree so I guess that helped 😭😭 I had to write a LOT in uni so that certainly helped me developed my taste for writing and helped me a lot when it came to grammar and sentence structure (tho I'm not perfect at all and still make mistakes lmao). I'm not too sure if I'm qualified enough for giving tips lmao BUT I will tell you what works for me (bear in mind everyone's writing style is quite different tho!). One thing I tend to do a lot is rephrase actions, I move the focus from the subject to the action or even the consequences of an action. Say, instead of writing "He slammed the door and left in anger" I would say "The sound of the door slamming let everyone knew how he felt about the situation." It's not a huge change but it makes the writing seem more dynamic to me and it breaks the pattern of subject + action that easily makes a paragraph sound too robotic if overused. I actually have more tips but I feel like this answer is already too long 😭😭 Lemme know if u want me to share more!! I would also suggest to just write. Writing is a skill u practice over and over again to get better at it, if u dont write bc u don't like your results you'll never get better. I wasn't very good at writing AT ALL but reading a lot and writing even if my grammar sucked surely made me get better with time. Be kind to yourself and let someone u trust read your stuff! Having another set of eyes that can pick up what u dont is incredibly valuable.

And again, thanks for this lovely message, it means the world to me 🫂🫂