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February 27th, 2008

Writerisms

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Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer’s Shortcut to Stronger Writing
By: C.J. Cherryh
Writerisms: overused and misused language. In more direct words: find ‘em, root ‘em out, and look at your prose without the underbrush.

am, is, are, was, were, being, be, been … combined with “by” or with “by … someone” implied but […]

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February 15th, 2008

Speed Writing

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Take a leaf out of Philip M Parker’s book

Philip M Parker is the world’s fastest book author, and given that he has been at it only for about five years and already has more than 85,000 books to his name, he is also probably the most prolific.
Parker is also the most wide-ranging of authors - […]

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