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Good writing: 36 ways to improve your sentences
Good writing: 36 ways to improve your sentences
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Allen, Neal (Spiritual coach)
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English
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Pelham Road - Adult Non-Fiction
808.04207 Allen
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Read this first
Use strong verbs
Question 'being' and having
Keep it active
Stick with 'said'
Don't show off
Prefer Anglo-Saxon words
Sound natural
Trust your voice
Question transitions
Link ideas with semicolons
Drop 'very' and other crutch words
Jettison [all those] tiny words
Dress up 'this'
Remove the boring stuff
Refresh your words
Know your words inside out
Stay in tune
Find the hidden metaphor
Twist cliches
Knock three times
Stretch out
Short sells
Give your sentence a finale
Crystallize your dialogue
In fiction, archetype your characters
Show, then tell
Give them a hero's welcome
Once is enough
Smell the roses
Don't filter
Trust your reader
Layer your sentences
Write the hard stuff
Break the rules
Finish the damn thing
Worship (talented) editors
A final word
Neal's kit bag
Acknowledgments
Index.
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English language
Rhetoric
Sentences
Study and teaching
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Lamott, Anne
Author, Http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
ISBN
9798217046959
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