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Write Just, Just Write
Write Just, Just Write
A visit to the Writer’s Digest 25 Ways to Improve Your Writing in 30 Minutes a Day tip article offers us this: 18. Communication Good writing connects with readers. For each piece you write, ask yourself: Who is my audience? Imagine the people you’d most like to reach. What do I want the experience and result of this … More Communication
This is gonna be a hard one for me. If you’ve read even one of my posts, you know that I don’t shy away from clichés. As a matter of fact, I like them, and go out of my way to use them. When I read the next writing tip in the Writer’s Digest 25 Ways to … More But I like clichés…
Balance. I’m starting to breathe a little easier the more I delve into the Writer’s Digest 25 Ways to Improve Your Writing in 30 Minutes a Day tip article. 12. Balance Creating a sense of balance in your piece is similar to creating unity (see the opposite page), but the repeated element is even more obviously connected … More Teetering on the brink of
I have a hard time with word choices. My vocabulary is stunted, shallow, darn near non-existent (I had to come up with that phrase at the end because I couldn’t think of another word for low, limited, very little). I often come up with odd analogies and metaphors that paint awkward pictures because I can’t … More A dove’s gait
I had an Aha! moment the other day. I don’t often get things, but now and then, a huge spotlight manages to pierce the darkness and I see the light. In may only be for a moment, but that’s all I need before I crawl back under my rock and ruminate the clear idea tattooed … More The Aha! Moment
That’s true for ‘word pictures’, too. You know when you read a passage that seems to jump off the page, evoking an image that is so strong that when you talk about that scene with someone else, they describe it almost exactly the way you saw it in your mind’s eye? Yeah, well, like that. … More A picture is worth a thousand words…