Entries from February 2008
Does Social Networking improve us as Writers?
I was thinking to myself the other day how Facebook (and social networking in general) shows the level of creativity some people have within them when it comes to writing and actually, without these sites you probably wouldn’t ever get to see it.
There are many people who, despite being very quirky and word savvy, will [...]
Categories: Writing Tips
Read writing backwards
If you always struggle to effectively check your work and just skim over everything without really looking at it, try this technique.
Reading your work backwards means you have to look at every word individually (unless you have some kind of special gift) and your brain won’t allow you to scan over words in big blocks.
This [...]
Categories: Writing Tips
Common Writing Mistakes and errors
This site has a great list of common writing mistakes amongst other things. I like the commonly misspelled words page particularly. Go and see how many you would probably get wrong. You’ll be surprised.
Categories: Writing Tips