Tag: improve your writing

Improve Your Writing by Using Figures of SpeechImprove Your Writing by Using Figures of Speech

September 17, 2010| Idrees Patel| 10:59 PM

If the answer is a loud “Yes” then you know that there are certain things which are recommended in writing. Some of them are:

Having a proper writing voice
Having some personality
Using emotive language

Today, we’ll look into an element of grammar that achieves all three of the recommendations in an excellent manner. What is this element of grammar? And how does it improve your writing?

The element is figures of speech, and to find out how using them improves your writing, read on.

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1 Year Later: How I Improved My Writing1 Year Later: How I Improved My Writing

September 8, 2010| Idrees Patel| 12:04 AM

One year and a day ago, I was writing a post for my blog.

The post was just a normal post. At the time, I just wrote it and left it in the blog archives. And then, nearly a year later, wrote another post. The two posts were written by the same person: me. But I was shocked when I read both of them together. I couldn’t believe a simple fact. My writing had changed. It had improved.

And the scary thing was: even though one year had passed, I hadn’t really spent much time on obsessively improving my writing. Yet the facts were there. More people were visiting my blog now. More traffic. Why?

The difference in my writing.

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