When you read your story, does it sound off, maybe you can’t quite put your finger on it, but you know you’ve done something wrong? Sometimes–maybe even lots of times–there are simple fixes. These writer’s tips will come at you once a week, giving you plenty of time to go through your story and make the adjustments.
Theodore Bernstein’s fifty-five-year-old, 512-page The Careful Writer: A Modern Guide to English Usage (the Free Press, 1963) and its more than 2000 problem-solving entries has some of the best tips you’ll need if you’re serious about becoming a writer. Bernstein, former consulting editor of the New York Times, wrote/co-wrote seven books on writing, but this one–in my estimation–is his best. The font styles are old; the archaic structure of its syntax at times made me chuckle; and the topic is as appealing as banana juice (though I understand our Army boys in…
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Thanks for the reblog. Bernstein is a force unto himself. I just had to highlight some of his brilliance.
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👍😃
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I think i may need this just because its Bernstein.
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LOL
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He probably still has words like Buffoon and Berk. Both very good put downs for snobbery.
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Don’t forget Nincompoop, Oaf and Wazzock, Ellen 😄
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Nincompoop is superb as is Oaf but wazzock, being a fairly new word, it I think apeared in the 1970’s just doesnt cut it for me. But a Duffer a clot and best of all a chump! They hit the spot.
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It’s enough to send me doolally 😄😄😄
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Sorry chris I was on a roll. 😶
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ROLL ON, MACELLEN 😄😄😄
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‘What is done is done’ act 111 scene 11
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😃😄😂
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