10 Tips for Tightening Your Writing by Gregg McLachlan at NewsCollege
Here are the ten tips in a list, and check out the full article to get some details for each one, and you will also find a list of other good tips in the sidebar of the webpage, too.
1. Beware the back-ins
2. Count your sentence lengths
3. Simplify
4. Read your story out loud
5. Axe the add-ons
6. Avoid quote-itis
7. Condense, condense, condense
8. Get rid of attribution-itis
9. Beware 'and'
10. Ask yourself key questions
As you can guess from the instructions for the assignments in this class, "read your story out loud" is my #1 favorite here!
