Akirlu's Tips For Better Writing
Jul. 25th, 2008 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akirluWrite shorter sentences, and more of them.
This advice won't help everyone, but it does address two of my most consistent failings, namely: (1) trying to pack an entire paragraph of related thought into a single sentence, instead of letting everyone catch a breath or two at the full stops (you're soaking in it), and (2) writing gnomic précises of what I mean to say, rather than just figuring out what I mean to say and saying that. When I re-write, often I find myself turning single sentences into three or four much shorter ones.
This advice won't help everyone, but it does address two of my most consistent failings, namely: (1) trying to pack an entire paragraph of related thought into a single sentence, instead of letting everyone catch a breath or two at the full stops (you're soaking in it), and (2) writing gnomic précises of what I mean to say, rather than just figuring out what I mean to say and saying that. When I re-write, often I find myself turning single sentences into three or four much shorter ones.
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