How to Measure Your Growth as a Writer

First, we need to understand what growth means to you.

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One of the most common writing advice you’ll find on the web is ‘keep writing.’ But when do you grow? How to realize your skill has a writer improved? Many writers out there struggle with this problem.

So, how to measure your growth as a writer? By defining what growth means for your unique writing journey, understanding what areas you need to work on, and investing in each of them separately. Let me shed some light on my own experience with growing as a writer and how you can measure your own growth.

What is Growth?

Every writer out there has their own way of defining growth. One writer might decide that they measure growth by the clarity of their writing, while another might choose to measure growth by using more similes or metaphors.

My way of defining my writing growth is to make sure I don’t sound like a foreigner through my writing. English isn’t my native language, and in the past, I used to write sentences that made little sense in English but sounded right inside my Hebrew-speaking mind.

What is your way to measure growth?

This definition is dynamic. You may want to focus on growing one aspect of your writing skill…