Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 58 [writing/editing game]
How would you tighten this week's Challenge Sentence? "In this tutorial you’ll find a demonstration of techniques for eliminating preposition bloat through…" Continue reading → The post Tighten This!...
View ArticleTighten This! Challenge Sentence 59 [writing/editing game]
How would you tighten this week's Challenge Sentence? "There remains a lot of confusion about what buyer personas are and aren’t and how…" Continue reading → The post Tighten This! Challenge Sentence...
View ArticleTighten This! Challenge Sentence 60 [writing/editing game]
How would you tighten this week's Challenge Sentence? "The successful candidate will be the key leader and customer advocate working closely with…" Continue reading → The post Tighten This! Challenge...
View ArticleTa Ta, Tighten This!
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View ArticleEnough
“Sir, I need to see your ticket,” the bus driver says. A young man, maybe in his early twenties, is walking toward the back of the bus, where I’m sitting… Continue reading → The post Enough appeared...
View ArticleWriters, How Much Should You Leave Unsaid?
I chopped off the first four paragraphs, massaged the middle, and refashioned and refashioned the ending—oh, how I wanted to say things there!—until nothing remained but what had happened. Continue...
View ArticleTighten This! A Special Emergency One-Time-Only Revival Competition Edition
Special revival edition of the Tighten This! game. Continue reading → The post Tighten This! A Special Emergency One-Time-Only Revival Competition Edition appeared first on Writing.Rocks .
View Article“I Used to Be an Ex-Manager” and More Than over 1100+ Other Redundant Phrases
Dip in to this list anywhere, and give your inner editor’s funny bone a tickle. Take “hurriedly scurried.” Or “moral high horse.” Or “live studio audience.” “Old codgers.” “Old coots.” “Old fossils.”...
View ArticleInstantly Highlight (Almost All*) Be-Verbs in a Microsoft Word Doc
Try this easy macro to instantly highlight be-verbs in a Microsoft Word document. You don't have to know anything about macros or code. Continue reading → The post Instantly Highlight (Almost All*)...
View ArticleInstantly Find Long Sentences in Your Microsoft Word Docs
Try this easy macro to instantly find all your long sentences in a Microsoft Word document. You don't have to know anything about macros or code. Continue reading →
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