Poynter Online published a list of FIFTY WRITING TIPS. You heard me right. FIFTY WRITING TIPS, each one with a brilliant explanatory essay attached. With that list, they saved you bazillions of dollars of writing school tuition money...
The good folks at LifeHack piled all the links into one simple archive. You should dig through this index for the rest of your life. I'll be returning to these individual essays over the next few months, reminding you how important it is to read these FIFTY WRITING TIPS!
Just check out tip number two, one of the most important things I ever learned:
"[A]void the verb qualifiers that attach themselves to standard prose like barnacles to the hull of a ship: Sort of, Tend to, Kind of, Must have, Seemed to, Could have, Use to.
"Scrape away these crustaceans during revision, and the ship of your prose will glide toward meaning with efficient speed and grace."
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