Today’s Writing Tip Is about Expanding Your Vocabulary
Indefatigable… pristine… eviscerate… antithetical… arduous… enervating. What do these words have in common? We don’t see them that often. An excellent way to improve your vocabulary and your writing is...
View ArticleToday’s Writing Tip Is on Reliable Websites
Out of the hundreds of millions of websites that you can visit for information or research, which ones can you trust? Mark Bauerlein, author of The Dumbest Generation, says that only one percent of all...
View ArticleToday’s Writing Tip Is on When to Use He versus His
Most of the time it’s a no-brainer as to when to use he or his. “He opened the car door to get his groceries.” Simple. But what about this – “Mark and his wife were excited about their evening; the...
View ArticleToday’s Writing Tip Is Take a Listen
Over the last year or two, I’ve heard a number of newscasters use the expression, “take a listen.” I don’t know where that came from. Why do we need to use two verbs? Why not just say, “Listen”? There...
View ArticleToday’s Writing Tip Is about Creating Conflict
Recently, I wrote a book review on Fifty Shades of Grey, the new runaway bestseller about Anastasia Steele, a naïve young woman who falls for Christian Grey, a man who can only derive pleasure from a...
View ArticleToday’s Writing Tip Is on Contradicting Yourself
An important part of writing is making sure that what you say is consistent. You don’t want to say one thing when you mean another. Here’s an example: “I don’t plan on coming back, at least not for a...
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