Word Counter < buzzkiller.net: where the buzzword meets the buzzsaw > Journalists--if you're sick of hearing and reading the following fatuous phrases in p.r. pitches and press releases, if you've realized that every brush with vapid verbiage robs your life of a little bit of meaning, drop us an e-mail with your nominations for the worst buzzwords and phrases in circulation. P.R. professionals--if it galls you to write releases containing such stuff, or if you say things like "our best-of-breed turnkey solutions are robust and highly scalable" only through clenched teeth, if you think there's a place in p.r. work for clear, descriptive, specific language, e-mail your nominations as well.**With a few submissions, we'll be able to identify and rank the most atrocious words and phrases as well as reproduce some examples of plain terrible usage and all-around foolishness. Together, with dedication, pointed scorn and clear thinking, we can stem the epidemic of worthless words in writing about technology and business. In English, E-mail:
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Grammar, a Victim in the Office Jason Sanford: Don't cliche yourself into becoming a hack writer I'm tired of the writing cliches. You know, all those snappy little sayings about how if you want to be a writer all you have to do is write. Or that you should show not tell. Or start a story in the middle of the action. To quote the great Kurt Vonnegut, so it goes. The problem is not that there's no truth in these cliches. To understand what I mean, check out what author Jeff VanderMeer wrote as the ever-charming Curmudgeon on his Facebook account. "I'm finding the proliferation of this advice annoying: 'If you want to be a writer, write.' No shit. My suggestion? Writers write Reread what Jeff VanderMeer said above, then allow me take this cliche to the extreme. Do you know what types of writers merely write, with no other part of the equation figuring into their writing? Show don't tell Don't get me started about this cliche, which is so widespread it even has its own Wikipedia entry. Start in the middle of the action Write what you know Stick with a single point of view Avoid cliches
Make-or-Break Verbs Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing. This is the third in a series of writing lessons by the author. A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? Verbs kick-start sentences: Without them, words would simply cluster together in suspended animation. Jeff Rogers Fundamentally, verbs fall into two classes: static (to be, to seem, to become) and dynamic (to whistle, to waffle, to wonder). Static Verbs Static verbs themselves fall into several subgroups, starting with what I call existential verbs: all the forms of to be, whether the present (am, are, is), the past (was, were) or the other more vexing tenses (is being, had been, might have been). “Who is it that can tell me who I am?” Jumping ahead a few hundred years, Henry Miller echoes Lear when, in his autobiographical novel “Tropic of Cancer,” he wanders in Dijon, France, reflecting upon his fate: “Here is a scene.
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