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A manifesto on how to write
- masonic 8y agoWhy does every Medium article about writing contain multiple, basic grammar and usage errors?
- neilkakkar 8y agoHaha, tell me more? What do you think is erroneous?
- masonic 8y ago"Writing isn’t about more, it’s about less." Run-on sentence. "If what you write makes sense, if you can create the flow from one word to the next, from one line to the next,..." Run-on sentence. "For (sic) in the first place, are you writing for anyone but you?" "The number of words, the number of pages is the worst metric to judge your writing by." Run-on sentence "Unless, of course (sic) you’re writing a scientific paper." "Like in the above line, I can think of metrics worse than the number of words (sic) but writing things exactly as they are makes you lose sight of how they ought to be." I bet that even a free service like Grammarly would have spotted all of these. And I'm not even counting the grating ""Like in the above line..." misuse.
- neilkakkar 8y ago... Do you realize that was the style it was written in? Grammarly seems to get it. Might be, just might be a question of broadening your horizon and exposing yourself to different kinds of writing, not just the scientific kind?
- masonic 8y agoThere are different rules for poetry vs. prose, certainly. But you aren't writing either.
- neilkakkar 8y agoNoted :)