Review: Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

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Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This was a very fine book on writing. Some really shrewd wisdom in this thing. One of my favorites is this: Choose words the average writer avoids but the average reader understands. Rarely used words are not the same thing as unknown words.

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bethyada
7 years ago

Rarely used words are not the same thing as unknown words.

Definitionally correct. But were we to plot these on a Venn Diagram there would be a large overlap.

Still, good advice.

And writing this makes be wonder whether we can do something similar by making up words. Not so much neologisms but nounifying, verbifying, adverbifying words etc.

Malachi
Malachi
7 years ago
Reply to  bethyada

Words like “nounifying,” “verbifying,” and “adverbifying” … perhaps?