Bad writing
How should you pitch a publisher with your book proposal? Or, to look at this another way, how should you not do so? This book answers that question.
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Even if you are a non-fiction writer, this book is worth reading.
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Another article in the 'bad writing' series, 7 Features of Bad Writing suggests some common characteristics of poor prose. Any one of these 'sins' would serve as an indicator, especially if they occur more than once or twice.
Read MoreThis book may be thirty years old, but its advice is still pertinent. If you want to have a blitz or crackdown against, or shake-up of, bad writing (all examples of 'tabloidese'), then this is the book for you.
Read MoreWhy do some writers write badly?
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Man, is that writing horrible! Photo from www.pixabay.com
News about a website that provides copious examples of dreadful language use: curate, driven, iterate -- it's all there. Read it and cringe.
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