When it’s time to do a bit of writing that serves the purpose of satiating our more creative outlets, we often think about escaping. The thought process likely has to do with removing ourselves from the more familiar places in our lives—where we know the sort of distractions that occur—and set...
Continue reading ...One of my biggest causes in professional and other writing is to remove virtually all passive voice (yes, yes, there ARE some times when it is intentional and correct), so I often remove gerunds to fix sentences. However, there are other considerations with the gerund than the effort to make sentenc...
Continue reading ...As a follow-up the Effective Business Writing post from yesterday, here are some more general concepts I took from the writing seminar. The most important question of all to ask of your writing is, “Does It Work?” This is even more important than asking if your writing is accurate. Whether o...
Continue reading ...A while back, I attended a writing workshop. It was mostly aimed at writing better in general. While most of the topics were points that I (and you) already know, I did take a way some worth from it. So, here are some ideas I took from the event, since they can benefit all of us writers, including t...
Continue reading ...How many mornings do you awake and tell yourself, “My writing is good, but what I really want to know is what Hunter S. Thompson can teach me about powerful writing.” Well, it may not be a daily question (though I’m not sure why not, given his trailblazing brilliant, unique, unapologetic style...
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