writing well

Writing Well: The Editor

JD Hull
January 08, 2009 10:29

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. --H.G. Wells (1866-1946) I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse. --Henry James (1843-1916), after a request by the Times Literary Supplement...No passion in the world is equal to the passion...

Writing Well: The Overstatement

JD Hull
December 19, 2008 23:55

See at The Trial Practice Tips Weblog "The Only Writing Tip That Really Matters", which quotes William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White's The Elements of Style: When you overstate, readers will be instantly on guard, and everything that has preceded...See at The Trial Practice Tips Weblog "The Only...

Redux: Emailed "thank-you" notes are low and tacky; if you mean it, handwrite it.

JD Hull
December 12, 2008 16:06

A good thank-you--a real thank-you--means something. It is notable, memorable, important.--Tom Chiarella, A Little Gratitude, Esquire Magazine, April 2007 In case your mother never told you, you're from the boonies, or you were stoned all five years at Andover,... A good thank-you--a real...

Writing well--and sanely.

JD Hull
December 10, 2008 23:27

One of WAC?'s most clicked-on articles, a short one, is "Just Say It: The War Against Legal-Speak". It was inspired by parts of a disturbing if entertaining lawyer document we were forced to read for money at work. Our point...One of WAC?'s most clicked-on articles, a short one, is "Just Say It:...

The Tree of Good Writing

JD Hull
December 10, 2008 15:08

By And? Tokutar?, circa 1846... By And? Tokutar?, circa 1846