Writing is a Constant First Impression
Writing tells people more about us, than we may realize. Readers make decisions about our intelligence, level of education, breeding and morality. They decide whether we are someone who has something...
View ArticleA Simple Lesson on Editing
Decades ago, I worked at Walmart and performed various duties during my five years on the job. The most practical of these tasks applies to writing and editing. Zoning is the act of straightening the...
View ArticleAnalyze These Sentences
From time to time, I will be sharing some writing for you to break down for me, so we can grow. These sentences are from a book I picked up at the library. These are from the first three pages of a...
View ArticleEditing Practice 9/13/10
This is a short blog post that I came across. Your assignment is to take this horrible, nonsensical writing and shape it into a piece that people can read without cringing and laughing. Re-write it in...
View ArticleEditing Cleans Up the Garden
“One shortcoming of so many writers today is that they do not take pains; they do not recast their flawed sentences; they do not edit their copy for the sense of it; and they wind up with what I have...
View ArticleHate to be Edited?
“No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.” -Russell Lynes
View ArticleWriting Fiction is Easy and Very Difficult
Putting pen to paper and describing the scene in our head is easy. Stringing dialogue based on the way we speak is not challenging. However, forming everything together into a cohesive, compelling...
View ArticleFinding The Right Word…
“The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter–it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning” [Mark Twain].
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