by sheza | Apr 14, 2022 | Blog, General Writing Tips
So, you’re interested in becoming a writer to make a living out of it. Do you know how to strengthen writing skills? Yes, I’m a writer. So, because I now make a living as a writer, I consider myself a professional writer! If you want to work in online...
by sheza | Feb 8, 2021 | Blog, General Writing Tips
Writing is scrapping, “omit unnecessary words” at least according to Journalist and AKO literature prize winner Jeroen Brouwers. He applies a hard rule: whoever uses ‘but’ on a page more than three times cannot call himself a writer. * When I...
by sheza | Feb 2, 2021 | Blog, General Writing Tips
How to use a semicolon correctly? In the four years that I worked for a website, I used a semicolon once, incorrectly. In this article about musicians apprenticed to sports psychologists, the punctuation mark is in a place where a comma would have been enough. From...
by sheza | Jan 29, 2021 | Blog, General Writing Tips
I wouldn’t call myself a commander (yes, that word is really in the dictionary ). But I have to admit that sometimes I am a little too attached to the punctuation mark with which you chop a sentence into pieces. When do you actually use a comma in the right way?...
by sheza | Jan 25, 2021 | Blog, General Writing Tips
Do you know what’s an auxiliary verb? In the first versions of my texts, a stubborn weed often grows. Sometimes I come across verbs in two or three places in a sentence, such as ‘will’, ‘could’, ‘should’, ‘go’, or...
by sheza | Jan 17, 2021 | Blog, General Writing Tips
Do not use unnecessary adjectives. That is one of the first lessons for people who want to write attractively. For example, Roald Dahl gives this tip in a letter from 1980, in which he advises one of his readers on attractive writing and the use of adjectives (that is...
