Comments on: 10 Tips & Tricks To Improve Your Writing https://dahaines.com/10-tips-tricks-to-improve-your-writing/ Alter ego of author, Derek Haines Thu, 01 Aug 2024 09:20:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Derek Haines https://dahaines.com/10-tips-tricks-to-improve-your-writing/#comment-30244 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:01:43 +0000 http://www.derekhaines.ch/vandal/?p=8561#comment-30244 In reply to Isabella King.

Thank your for noticing Isabella! My ‘Aussie’ vocabulary slips out occasionally. Now I do feel like a real dope. Or even better, a bit of a drongo! :)

]]> By: Isabella King https://dahaines.com/10-tips-tricks-to-improve-your-writing/#comment-30227 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:10:10 +0000 http://www.derekhaines.ch/vandal/?p=8561#comment-30227 Bit of a dope?
Is that your Aussie accent slipping out? :)

]]> By: ScottTheWriter https://dahaines.com/10-tips-tricks-to-improve-your-writing/#comment-14290 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:42:17 +0000 http://www.derekhaines.ch/vandal/?p=8561#comment-14290 Great tips, Derek! I have to admit, I don’t always check my work before I send it out, and then I see those little typos all over. And then I don’t learn from my mistakes.

#4 is the most common problem I see, especially when it comes to government and corporate writing. The intention, it seems, is to make everything grander. And you just can’t convince some people.

]]> By: Cheryl https://dahaines.com/10-tips-tricks-to-improve-your-writing/#comment-14285 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:35:19 +0000 http://www.derekhaines.ch/vandal/?p=8561#comment-14285 Is it OK that I skipped #10 because it made my eyeballs hurt? ;-)

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