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Your style is important
Style: Checklist For Fiction Writers As you begin to develop your outline, and then the actual narrative of your novel, you can save time and energy by making sure that your writing style requires...
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Why Can’t I Use Passive Voice?
Ronald Reagan famously said: “Mistakes were made” as a way to avoid taking the blame. Passive sentences aren’t incorrect. It has a place in business and science writing. Using a passive sentence is...
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Homophones
Homonyms, homophones, and homographs are words that are easily confused because they look alike or sound alike (or both) but have different meanings. There’s only one way to keep from looking foolish...
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Writing tip: The adverb is not your friend
Originally posted on Dispositively:Today’s writing advice comes from Stephen King. Perhaps he is an unlikely source of legal writing advice, since the guy is a master supernatural storyteller and we as...
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Improve your vocabulary
What’s the right word? Being a better writer demands that you use language in an evocative, effective manner. Most of us use the same few hundred words over and over. You don’t want to be a pretentious...
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It’s Literally Nonsense
Originally posted on see james write.:“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” -Abraham Lincoln Sorry, Mr. President. Apparently...
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Style Guide: Punctuating dialogue
punctuation for dialogue. The standard style guides (for American English) say that the tag (he said, she yelled, asked Emma, etc) are treated as part of the sentence, separated from the actual...
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The Characteristics of Good Writing
The Characteristics of Good Writing.Filed under: advice/inspiration, editing, writing Tagged: content, grammar, style, writing
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Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything
Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything.Filed under: advice/inspiration Tagged: editing, grammar
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