Posts tagged with ‘writing’

Less is often more – especially when it comes to writing. Here are five easy ways you can tighten…

Every sentence needs a subject and a verb – and the stronger your verb, the stronger your sentence will…

The inverted pyramid is the most common way you can structure news stories, press releases, web pages and anything…

Using positive language is a great way to make sentences short and snappy.

At the risk of sounding like a…

My last post explained how to write in the active voice – but what’s far less known is the…

Writing in the active voice is key to making your copy sharper and easier to read. Yet while many…

“That’s not writing, that’s typing.”

Truman Capote famously dismissed Jack Kerouac’s writing by saying this, and I’m inclined to agree….

Short sentences are easy to read.

They grab our attention, increase the reading pace, and make it more likely that…