Month: January 2021
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More commonly misused words
Read More: More commonly misused wordsI once stated to a colleague that I didn’t want to become typecast as an editing teacher, yet here I am talking about it again. I plan to cover many other writing themes as well. Yet wordcraft comprises the bulk of writing errors, also these are the easiest to fix. Here I will discuss three…
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Problems with normal teaching 1: assignments
Read More: Problems with normal teaching 1: assignmentsOne of the main problems with formal writing courses is the assignments. Even if we pretend that they were designed carefully, they may still not be very educational.
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Avoid clichéd character tricks
Writing compelling characters is not easy. Being good at it demands a deep understanding of people. One develops that through a mixture of interest, observational skill, and puzzle-solving, all of which take time to learn. It’s particularly unlikely that one will develop such understanding from a book.
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Ego defence
Maybe the most harmful aspect of ego is ego-defence. This is called resistance in psychological textbooks.
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