Search Results (writing and editing)

Explaining a topic concisely is difficult, but eliminating superfluous words and expressions will streamline—and clarify—your prose.

Your website is lovely, your blog posts are lyrical, but typos and bad syntax could be driving potential customers away by the thousands. Stanch the bleeding. Here’s how.

The bracketed Latin term tells readers that a particular error appeared in the source material and was not an oversight by the later text’s editor or transcriber. Here’s how to use it properly.

Perfection doesn’t magically flow onto paper or screen. Go ahead, and stink up the joint with your shoddy prose. You can—and should—fix it later, but the freedom to fail can be liberating.

Distilling thoughts into words and building sentences and paragraphs—for even a few minutes a day—does more than just create text blocks. It also eases your mind and frees up your thinking.

In today’s world of short attention spans, it’s crucial to convey your message quickly and simply. Make your writing tighter and more effective with these easy fixes.

Twitter, a phone call, looking up a key detail, Facebook, coffee and a scone, and the archvillain email—all these can and will distract you and undermine your flow. Heed this advice.

Awash in a sea of goldfish-level attention spans biting at click-bait, many saw the only way of staying afloat was to produce list stories. Here’s how to get your writing back on terra firma.

These insights from both sides of the desk will help you work efficiently, fulfill your subject matter and deadline targets, and foster good will for future assignments.

The guidelines for novelists and screenwriters apply to anyone who strings words together to tell a story, inform readers or engage an audience—and keep your editor at bay.

An astonishing amount of communications copy is verbose, badly proofread, carelessly edited. Read below to remind yourself of tenets most often violated by PR pros.