Today’s writing tip comes from Strunk & White. Strunk and White teach to keep things simple. They understand that the goal of writing, in its most basic form, is to arrive at common understanding. Choose a suitable design and stick to it. Make the paragraph the unit of composition. Use the active voice. Put statements in positive form. Use definite, specific, concrete language. Omit needless words. Avoid...

  Writing Tips: Inner Editor   Writing Tips on your Inner Editor: Today’s writing tip addresses one of the most difficult facets of being a writer - your inner editor. Your inner editor is that critic buried deep down inside you that rears his ugly head each time you have some writing momentum. He urges you to stop and scrutinize each and every detail of your writing. He says things like, Is the sentence...

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Just write, damn it!The new catchy phrase on the Internet lately seems to be B.I.C.H.O.K. Simply put, (B)ut (I)n (C)hair, (H)ands (O)n (K)eyboard. A lot of people complain about writer’s block. When you are feeling like the writing isn’t coming, what are you doing? Sitting in front of the computer, staring at the screen? Then you start surfing the internet. Perhaps you are youtube, or some other...

Don’t be negative, be positive. You have probably heard that most of your life. Well, in writing that saying holds true. You shouldn’t be overly negative from a grammar perspective, especially double negative. Avoiding double negatives should be simple, but for some reason it seems to be an ongoing issue with some people. If you put more than one negative in a single clause, you are breaking the...

I read this one all the time. When I see this mistake, it’s like getting gouged in the eye with a needle. There is a time to use the word “then” and a situation to use the word “than.” What do I mean by that? The word “than” is for comparisons. When you are contrasting the attributes that a noun has with those of something else, you will use “than.” For...

Today’s writing tip is critical for the proper flow and pacing of your writing. You should be mindful of the length of your sentences. Short sentences have a purpose, and so do long ones, but too many of either will leave your reader frustrated, whether or not he knows why. The proper flow a reader is used to feeling comes from a combination of short and long sentences. This is a general rule, unless...

Use sounds to help you write Today’s writing tip is a little unusual. I recently read an article somewhere about trying to control the sounds you listen to while you write. While on one hand this concept isn’t new at all. Writers talk about the music they listen to while they write all the time. I have even recently seen some writers post their favorite play lists online. For me, music really can...

Improve your Writing Productivity If you are a writer struggling to write, you will like this writing tip (and, you’re normal). If you are writing you will know that there are days when you write one paragraph, and others when you write ten pages. What’s the difference? How can you create more ten page days? The answer is simple, if you are willing to: Establish a Writing Routine Writing is...

Silent H Today’s Writing tip is one of my favorites, and a pet peeve of mine. There is nothing worse then hearing someone using the word “a” before a word that starts with a vowel, or a vowel sound. The rule is, if a word starts with a vowel sound and you are going to use “a” or “an” in front of it, then you should select “AN.” You would never say, for example,...