Good writing is rewriting. Professional writers know they must reorganize paragraphs and even whole sections of their prose if it makes for better drama, add content to the thinner passages to make them more vivid, and delete content that does not move the narrative along. No matter how good the style of a sentence may be, it's useless if it doesn't help tell the story. This is the work that writers do.
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A participant in one of my workshops, D. Hom, asked a question about hyphenating expressions such as “end of year.” Determining what to h...
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Chances are that for any viewpoint we take or for any choice we make, the spirit philosopher is not far away, saying, “Been there, don... -
READER QUESTION Could you settle an office dispute over whether the word “trainings” is legitimate? We might use it in a sentence...