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Tips to prune crufty writing

Merlin Mann | Jul 14 2005

Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer’s Shortcut to Stronger Writing

Writerisms: overused and misused language. In more direct words: find ‘em, root ‘em out, and look at your prose without the underbrush.

Useful set of tips on improving the carpentry of your writing by avoiding cliches and colorless (or too colorful) language.

Man, I’m guilty of so many of these.

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> Man, I’m guilty of...

Submitted by pigpogm (not verified) on July 14, 2005 - 9:19am.

Man, I’m guilty of so many of these.

You know, if, just hypothetically, you were writing a book - this wouldn’t be the best sales pitch.

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Feh. It'll all shake out...

Submitted by Merlin Mann on July 14, 2005 - 9:21am.

Feh. It’ll all shake out in tech edit.

/famous last words

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