As a participant of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge, I met and networked with many bloggers, shared tips and gave feedbacks on each others’ posts. Such was the chance encounter with Francene Stanley who never failed to give honest feedback on my style of writing, her opinions on what I wrote. Francene Stanley found initial inspiration…
Stamp Out Self-Doubt
November is less than a week away and many of you must have made plans to take part in the NaNoWriMo. Surely there’s no worse time than now to be riddled with self-doubt. Sylvia Plath had it right when she said that ‘the worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt’. Today, we talking about small steps…
Clear And Simple Writing: Get Active
Get active. Yes. Another way to keep our writing clear and simple is to use Active Voice rather than the Passive Voice in your writing. Now comes your question: What are you talking about? Get Active What is Active Voice? A simple way to define active voice is to say – when the subject in a sentence…
Clear And Simple Writing: Use Fewer Words
Wordy phrases are the hallmark of Indian business writing. I guess, we inherited it from the British. We think that the more ‘formal’ the word used, the more important we sound! That’s not true. Fewer words make better writing. We often use two or three words where one word would do. This is what results in…
Clear And Simple Writing: The Power of One Idea
Writing is quite different from speaking. When we speak, we might say that whole sentence together, with a pause in between. Our expressions and pauses help the person we are talking to understand our meaning. Not so in writing. We have to be concise and clear in what we write. Let’s talk about the power…
Clear And Simple Writing : Short Sentences
We owe it to our readers to use clear and simple writing. There are way too many blogs to read, and the faster our readers get our message, the better! Let’s not make them sift through several layers of words to understand what we are saying. Clear And Simple Writing : Short Sentences Keep readers…