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If you came to Writing, Clear and Simple expecting grammatical and stylistic perfection, keep moving. Everyone makes mistakes, including your humble host (despite my best efforts). If you’re willing to deal with that, stick around and join the fun. And if you spot a writing faux pas here, feel free to bring it to my attention. You might even win some points.

To sharpen your writing, use your eraser

How do you sharpen a knife? By using a whetstone to take excess metal away from the edge. How do you sharpen your writing? Ken Davis offers this advice—some that I need to pay more attention to:

This week, erase (on paper or on computer screen) at least three words from everything you write. When you see the improvement, I bet you’ll erase more.

It’s a short but sharp post. (I’m sure he followed his own advice.)

Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 08:31AM by

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