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...
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...
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...
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?...
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...
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...
