Salvēte Redditōrēs! I have been learning Latin for 7 months now, and I am generally satisfied with my progress, and, a few months ago, I started to write in Latin. I can communicate in Latin on Discord. I can describe my day in Latin and write a creative story without too much difficulty. Nevertheless, recently I found out that academic writing just gives me a headache. I mean, I can express my thoughts in an essay, but I feel my arguments are sometimes a bit far-fetched because every so often I have to rephrase my wordings, which results in awkward phrasings, or in other words, my intuition tells me the Latinity of my essay is bad, so even if a sentence is grammatically correct, it just sometimes feels weird, yet I can’t identify where it went wrong. I don’t even know if it’s normal or not at this stage.

In addition here’s a screenshot of an excerpt of my essay, which I wrote with little to no external help. I already made some corrections. I am also under the impression Latin lacks many words. According to ChatGPT and other AI tools I am B2 in writing, but I don’t consider that very reliable. Although I don’t struggle that much with creative writing, whenever I take a look at those essays in other languages which are supposed to be at B1/B2 level I just feel their vocabulary is so advanced😭 that I don’t even consider myself B1 anymore. However, when the CEFR rubric says ‘can produce simple connected texts related to familiar topics or interests’ I know I clearly fulfil this requirement…

Anyway, I am looking for a prose composition textbook, and to be more specific, I’m looking for a textbook that teaches prose composition in the Ørberg style, which is, explain how to write Latin in Latin. My writings are already full of English’s influence, so I think doing more translations would only worsen the problem. By the way, I can’t hire private tutors at the moment(bc of my parents, they would never agree to this), but I would love to in the future.

(I know topics such as Latinitas and CEFR are somewhat controversial, yet I don’t know how else I am supposed to talk about my feelings right now)

How can I improve my writing skills and are there prose composition textbooks, if any?