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Category Archives: Revision
Getting Your Writing To Flow, Part 5: Tone
This is part five in a five-part series. The fifth installment in “Getting Your Writing to Flow” (in case you’ve missed them, here are parts one, two, three, and four) focuses on an issue that is at once more global … Continue reading
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Tagged blog writing, Revision, tone, writing tips
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Seek And Destroy Your Writing Style Enemies
This is part four in the five-part series “Getting Your Writing To Flow.” The previous entries in this series focused on ways that structure affects flow. I provided tips for structuring sentences and paragraphs (both a paragraph’s topic/wrap-up sentence and … Continue reading
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Tagged blog writing, Revision, vagueness, wordiness, writing style, writing tips
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Getting Your Writing To Flow, Part 1
This is part one of a five-part series. “Flow” is an interesting concept. Among productivity gurus, “flow” most often refers to that elusive sweet spot within work where you’re getting things done with maximum efficiency and effectiveness. People used to … Continue reading
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Tagged clarity, conjunctive adverbs, flow, referent, Revision, writing tips
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Convene Your Mental Advisory Committee (MAC)
If drafting is about exploring options, revising is about making decisions. Decisions about what you want to say and how you want to communicate it. Decisions about where the heart of your writing is, what’s good, and what’s not. Decisions … Continue reading
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Revision as Re-envisioning
In a recent post, Write To Done’s Leo Babuta (of Zen Habits fame) discussed revision as primarily a process of simplifying. The tips he provides in that post focus on removing the inessential and the verbose (the “cluttered” parts of … Continue reading
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Tagged blog writing, how to revise, Revision, writing tips
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