Five cool links about writing
- Dumb Little Man’s 40+ tips to improve your grammar and punctuation. If you read this post, you don’t have to read Eats Shoots and Leaves. (In fact you don’t have to read it anyway.)
- Visual Thesaurus. It’s a useful tool for brainstorming words. They also publish interesting articles about writing from various notable bloggers. And me.
- Buzzword Bingo: An order of magnitude on Steve Clayton’s blog is a useful reminder about how not to misuse common phrases. My personal bugbear is misuse of ‘decimate.’ See also my post The worst press release ever for more examples.
- Kiss the Frog Now. This is a company run by Preethi Nair. She is a novelist who quit her management consultancy job to write (but didn’t tell anyone and led a bizarre secret life while she finished and self-published her first book). Now she helps companies with ‘corporate storytelling. My wife voiced the tape versions of her books and we met her last week for the first time.
- Tech writing tips - Watch a user try to follow your instructions on Tom Johnson’s I’d rather be writing blog. Very helpful for anyone writing instructions.
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Robert Gorell wrote:
Matthew,
Thanks for the links. I especially liked the “worst press release ever”. Hyperbole will get you nowhere…
Posted on 20-Aug-07 at 5:41 pm | Permalink
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Angela Williams Duea wrote:
Thanks for the great links! I especially liked the awful press release.
Posted on 22-Aug-07 at 4:55 pm | Permalink