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Professional writer here. Writing well takes years of practice. If you already write well, you won't need this program. You'll know the rules and the right tim
by normloman 13y ago
Professional writer here.
Writing well takes years of practice. If you already write well, you won't need this program. You'll know the rules and the right times to break them.
But if you can't put in the time and effort to become a great writer, just using this program can improve your writing a lot.
- krmmalik 13y agoGlad to see the opinion of an actual professional writer rather than just someone with an opinion for the sake of it. I'm trying very hard to improve my writing at the moment and reading Zinsser's book. I understand what Zinsser is encouraging us all to do, but putting it in practise is over 30 years of un-learning that I need to do so it's not easy. I'm glad that you said the tool is useful because i was having doubts about it after seeing the other comments. Im going to use it to assess my next blog post and see how things pan out. Thanks for the tip.
- normloman 13y agoThat's a classic book!
- e12e 13y agoEasily the best book on writing I've read. Closely followed by some research from the 60s on "process oriented writing" (I'm not sure if that's the accepted English term -- the material I read was in Danish). They essentially say the same thing: writing is re-writing -- and in that light, any tool that encourages you to look at what you've written again, and rethink it one more time, should help improve your writing. [edit: Hemmingway himself has allegedly said "The first draft of anything is shit." -- but at least wikiquote has it as unsourced, so I'm not sure if the attribution is correct -- even if the idea probably is]
- kibibu 13y agoCan I ask which book in particular?
- krmmalik 13y ago"On Writing Well".
- dclara 13y agoI think most of us have a writing skill level beyond the average, which cannot compare with the professional writers. And I do believe that language capability is very important because it's the bridge between us and other people. But the new trend is leading towards making everything simple and easy for everybody to absorb. It's even better to make it under college level. I don't quite agree with it. We should influence the next generation with excellent language expression more than simplifying it. One more point is: if we need to publish our articles, better to use professional editors online to edit it. Proof reading or editing is always necessary for all the publications, like magazine and books, right?