Hattip to Steve Skojec.
My comments:
- I can write with music playing in the background, but no other sound.
- Reading good books is a must. Reading such books shows you what good writing is.
- A thousand times writing with your ear! I speak each sentence I write aloud internally.
- I often have to write about what does not interest me in my day job. Helps explain why legal prose is usually deader than Marley.
- Clarity, clarity, clarity! Make your writing as transparent as glass, especially when dealing with complex matters.
- Portions of incomplete writings often make the basis for a later good piece of writing.
- I always found composition impossible with a typewriter. Fortunately I have no such difficulty with keypads.
- Also never use a word to simply show off your erudition.
“Also never use a word to simply show off your erudition.”
Thanks Don. Love learning new words; I had to look that one up.
“the quality of having or showing great knowledge or learning; scholarship..”
Were you being punny?
The pleonastic, censorious, orotund and vituperative prolixity of some contumeliously cavil and execrable (yet clearly erudite) online contributors hereon who obstreperously traduce sincere internet opinionators is inimically insouciant to honest and beneficial interactive dialogue!
Only unintentionally David, which, I am sorry to say, is when my humor is at its best!