Beyond Me, Myself, and I: Four Ideas for Escaping the First-Person Bubble
Even when writing about yourself, there’s room for other voices in your prose.
Even when writing about yourself, there’s room for other voices in your prose.
Ready to revise? Use Roy Peter Clark’s 50 Writing Tools: Quick List to excise the bloat from your prose.
Here are three tips you can apply to improve your prose right now.
Members of the Daily Post crew share some of their favorite editing tips (multi-colored pens: recommended).
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