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Writing Tip and Prompt: 2/17/2012 

On Friday's we like to share writing tips and tricks with our readers.  We hope this section will encourage and inspire you to continually improve as a writer.

 

Writing Prompt

 

Describe the characteristics and qualities of your surroundings right now. What gives it life? Who is there and how do they contribute to the overall mood? Look for things that usually go unnoticed and how they add to this motif.

 

Writing Tip

 

Avoid wordiness. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. Use only what is needed to relay your meaning.

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