Word Perfect – a regular post of good writing tips, sources of assistance and downright rants.
Here is a selection from “100 one line writing tips” found on the psychoprogs blog. Cannot say I always manage to obey all of them:
- Sure signs of lazy writing are incomplete lists, etc.
- It is nice to be important, but it is more important to avoid using the word ‘nice’.
- Less is more. This means that a short, cryptic statement is often preferable to an accurate, but drawn out, explanation that lacks punch and loses the reader.
- Be spontaneous at regular intervals.
- Many words can ostensibly be deleted.
- On a scale of 0 to 10, internal consistency is very important.
