If you want to make your writing more interesting (and if you don't, you're on the wrong website), you need to make it evocative – and a great way to do this is to show, don't tell.

As with speech, your writing needs to flow smoothly and logically. One paragraph needs to lead to another, so the reader can follow your chain of thought.

Now that most of us are working from home, we’re relying on our writing skills more than ever before to communicate with colleagues and clients.

As a contradictory person, I used to be both annoyed and pleased as an editor when writers would send me copy that was far longer than I’d commissioned.

We often pepper our writing with unnecessary words. Sometimes we do this in a misguided attempt to add description – such as when we say something is very good, or quite reasonable, or really shocking.

If you struggle with writing good link text, you're not alone – the web is filled with poorly written links.

Every sentence needs a subject and a verb – and the stronger your verb, the stronger your sentence. Instead of writing: I really do not like boiled asparagus.

We all use superlatives, even if we don't know the term. A superlative is a fancy way of saying something is the absolute best it can be – typical examples are: most best top fastest ultimate premier most trusted.