On writing well (6)

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 "You will never make a mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words or curiousity" 


It's all about writing well. 


Learn to use them with originality and care.


Avoid mixture of cheap words, made up words and cliches. If you don't, you will sound like every hack.


Care deeply about your words.


The race in writing isn't to the swift but to the original. 

writing is learnt by Imitation, reading other people work.


The kind of writing that might be called Journalese ; "the death of freshness in anybody's style".


If you words/sentences are moving in same boring tune and sounding like dead (this happens when you aren't just feeling your lines); you can have variety of words by reversing the order of a sentence and substituting a word that has freshness.


As thesaurus is to writer, rhyming dictionary is to songwriters. 



Book Title: On writing well

Chapter: Six (Words )

Author: Williams Zinsser


The use of words makes up a good writing! I'm sure you got value for your time.

See you in the next chapter.



Review: TheGracedPen'23

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