What Type of Writer Are You? And How to Make it Work?

Parag Shah
5 min readAug 4, 2020

Day 4/31: Blog Your Own Book Challenge

This is my fourth post for the Blog Your Own Book Challenge. In the previous post, I wrote about Shaunta Grime’s Writer Archetype Quiz and how it helped me understand myself better (as a writer).

Encouraged by that experience, I thought of taking more quizzes to get a better understanding of my skills and weaknesses.

I searched for a few quizzes and tried them out but most of them did not resonate with me. However, I did find one that did. In this case, the actual process of taking the quiz helped me more than the final answer and verdict because it made me think about various aspects of my writing like preferred process, preferred style, and several others.

What Type of Writer Are You? (And How to Make It Work for Your Content)

The quiz is divided into four sections: Process, Style, Inspiration, and Nuts & Bolts. I’ll go through each section and what I learned about myself.

Process

It was entertaining to know that Jack Kerouac wrote “On the Road” by typing on a 120-foot roll of paper. The reason — Jack’s typing speed was 100 words a minute and having to replace paper ever so often interrupted his flow. It’s an…

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