<p>So I've been told (multiple times) that my writing is very linear, that I'm very this-this-this-this. I've also been told by the same people that my writing is good, I just spell things out too much instead of making the reader think for themselves. How can I write so that the reader thinks instead of just spelling things out for the readers?</p>
<p>Use a lot of sentence variety. Don’t immediately jump to subject verb order, try to make some things inversed to support their meaning better. When people write like that it is usually very bland and factual, try to add description and alternative punctuation also (colons, hyphens…)</p>