Easy Steps to Improve Your Writing

Improving your writing is about more than just spelling and grammar. We've put together a series of articles that address the nitty-gritty details of being a writer: style, voice, technique, brevity, metaphors, and more. If you want to get better at writing, this is a great place to start.

Since there's a lot to digest in every article, try reading one a week and practicing the tips within. Concentrate on the advice given and note how it relates to your current project. If you're deliberate in your focus, you'll find your work improving in just a few short months. It'll become cleaner, clearer, and more readable.

Here are the articles:

• Improve Your Writing Tip #1: Favor strong verbs over adverbs
• Improve Your Writing Tip #2: Don't hide your verbs, rejoice in them
• Improve Your Writing Tip #3: Favor active verbs
• Improve Your Writing Tip #4: Vary your sentence length
• Improve Your Writing Tip #5: Every writer has a "tell"
• Improve Your Writing Tip #6: Clichés are boring
• Improve Your Writing Tip #7: Don't repeat yourself
• Improve Your Writing Tip #8: Use alliteration to aid memory
• Improve Your Writing Tip #9: Beware of Purple Prose
• Improve Your Writing Tip #10: Chop away deadwood
• Improve Your Writing Tip #11: Read your work aloud
• Improve Your Writing Tip #12: Always get someone else to read your work
• Improve Your Writing Tip #13: Always delete words that you misspell and type them again
• Improve Your Writing Tip #14: Strengthen your metaphors
• Improve Your Writing Tip #15: Keep it short
• Improve Your Writing Tip #16: No wasted words
• Improve Your Writing Tip #17: Don't repeat sentence starts

Enjoy these tips, writer!