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De-clutter Your Writing
Like many others, I’ve picked up some bad writing habits over the years. Overwriting is my worst habit, putting more words on the page than readers need in order to understand what I’m writing about....
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Precision in Writing – Is That Word Necessary?
Writing with precision means more than using the right words and avoiding the nearly right words in a sentence. Sometimes it means taking out redundant words or phrases. In his book, The Marshall Plan...
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Grammar, Humor and Dangling Participles
The notion of grammar and humor first struck me when I was writing an earlier post (Precision in Writing – Is That Word Necessary?) in which I mentioned dangling participles. Now I admit that grammar...
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Writing with Precision: Watch Out for These Twelve Words
“If writing must be a precise form of communication, it should be treated like a precision instrument. It should be sharpened, and it should not be used carelessly.” Theodore M. Bernstein In pursuit of...
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Cutting The Flab from Your Writing
When I ran across a quote by Hilaire Belloc last night, it set me to thinking about what I write much of the time. Here’s the quote: Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule...
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A Roundup of Proofreading Tips
Sorry about the lack of recent posts here. A back injury kept me away from the computer for too long, but it had one unexpected, and welcome, outcome: lots of time to think about posts to write,...
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About Mistakes That Make You Look Bad
Today I ran across another post that can help me improve my writing. Mistakes That Make You Look Bad was on the WritingThoughts site and I think it is going to be a valuable addition to what I do here....
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