Archives for the 'Writing Basics' Category
- 10 Ways to Find 10 Minutes to Write
- You Are What You Read
- Minimise Distractions When Writing: 4 Practical Tips
- Good Writing “A Matter of Opinion”?
- How To Write Every Day (and why you should)
- Five Ways to Write Faster
- Using the Active Voice to Strengthen Your Writing
- 50 Open Source Resources for Writers
- Five Words You Can Cut
- Web Usability Revisited
- Break Writer’s Block: Choose Your Audience
- Break Writer’s Block: Don’t Begin at the Beginning
- Whom Are You Writing For?
- Review Writing Lessons
- Writing About History
- 34 Writing Tips That Will Make You a Better Writer
- Resonating with your reader
- 7 Ways to Kick Start the Writing Habit
- Is There Really Room for Error in Writing?
- Can You Speak Your Readers’ Language?
- Seven Writing Tips from Stephen King
- Four Tips For Successful Web Writing
- 8 Proofreading Tips And Techniques
- Why We Need Paragraphs
- Writing for Your Audience
- Write First, Edit Later
- Passive vs. Active Voice
- The Dummy Subject
- Orwell: Timeless Guidelines for Writers
- The Impotence of Proofreading
- How to Edit a Sentence
- Vivid Language Paints a Picture
- “Putting on Airs” or Expressing One’s Thoughts?
- Breaking the Lockjam and Buttoning Down the Hatches
- How to Bypass Your Internal Editor
- Voice: An Opportunity to Scream without Opening Your Mouth
- Write Super-Fast
- Write To Be Scanned
- Beware the shifting tense
- How to Start Writing When You Don’t Feel Like It
- Say What?
- Big Words Make You Sound Smart, Don’t They?
- Eliminating Superfluous Phrases
- The Inverted Pyramid
- Audience is Everything
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