Don’t make readers weary!
Today everything, it seems, has to be exciting and in writing that often means peppering the page with exclamation marks!
Squeezed by Yoof ‘n Shakespeare
Today I was asked how I balanced the desire to write 'standard English' with the more casual style of English usage that is developing.
Being discrete discreetly
iscreet or discrete? They sound and look similar, but their meanings are different, so how do you know which one to use?
This is fun so you will enjoy it!
Why am I always suspicious of people who describe themselves or anything they do as fun? Is it because it's for other people to decide what is and isn't fun? And that very often these people are anything but fun?
O is for original. Content is satisfaction
While there are considerable arguments for recycling natural resources where viable, I'm not so keen when this is applied to writing. Too much of the content of web sites, newspapers and magazines is recycled.
Action can make writing more interesting
When proofreading a number of large corporate documents recently, I realised how dull the writing can be. Just because someone is a specialist in a subject, it doesn't always follow . . .
