In the book, 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing, Gary Provost tells us how to write with style and power. Below are twelve ways he says will avoid making your reader hate you:

1. Avoid jargon.
2. Avoid cliches.
3. Avoid parenthesis.
4. Avoid footnotes.
5. Don’t use transitions to conceal information.
6. Don’t acknowledge when you should explain.
7. Don’t hide behind your words.
8. Don’t intrude.
9. Don’t play word games.
10. Don’t play the Tom Wolfe game.
11. Don’t play the mystery game.
12. Don’t cheat.

Okay, most of this is self-explanatory, but what is the Tom Wolfe game? Seems he loved the use of gimmicky wordplay, like writing ZOWeee!!!!… or all caps, and other annoying visuals. Guess he could get away with that. You and I can’t.

November 30, 2006 - 10:14 am


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