Five Tips for Cleaning Up Your Writing Right Now!

The Following are very important tips to advancing in your writing endeavors.

1. Avoid cliches like the plague: You can’t omit them altogether — and you shouldn’t try — but take care when recasting a tired word or phrase into something fresh and new. When calling attention to hypocrisy, instead of reciting the cliche “This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black,” you could write, “Keywords: pot, kettle, black.” You can also play with words, referring to an especially distraught drama queen as a trauma queen.
2. Avoid filler phrases: Delete content like “be that as it may,” “to all intents and purposes,” and “in the final analysis.” These prolix protrusions pop up naturally in speech to bridge a gap between one thought and the next, but although you’re forgiven for including them in a first draft, there’s no excuse for letting them pass inspection when you review your writing or edit someone else’s.
3. Avoid verbosity: Watch out for wordy phrases like “in order to,” or unnecessary word phrases like currently and “that is,” and/or smothered verbs (constructions in which a noun can be transformed into a verb, such as “offered an indication” when indicate will do.)
4. Avoid redundancies and repetition and saying the same thing twice: Edit and edit your work some more…also avoid repetition like your life depends on it. — common, like filler phrases, to spoken language but inimical to good writing — like “actual fact” and “completely finished.”
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