How to avoid making some of the worst and most common writing mistakes so you can say goodbye to poorly constructed sentences, write active prose and show rather than tell your story. The sentences discussed are written on the screen, so you can see what we're talking about. See this blog post for how to distinguish a present participle from other 'ing' ending words. [ Ссылка ]
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Video Chapters
00:00 Setting the scene by reading a poorly written passage.
00:52 Introduction.
01:53 The difference in meaning between the words ‘writing’ and ‘prose’.
02:31 What makes good prose.
03:29 Laying out the which-one-is-better game.
03:52 Tip 1. Starting sentences with ‘ing’ ending participles.
07:18 Tip 2. ‘To be’ verbs.
10:18 Tip 3. Starting sentences with ‘As’.
11:24 Tip 4. ‘Empty openers’.
12:15 Tip 5. ‘Would’ and ‘could’.
12:58 Tip 6. ‘Began to’ and ‘started to’.
13:36 Extra tip – About ‘ing’ and ‘ed’ ending verbs.
14:20 Bonus Tip 7. – Using the word ‘looked’ in descriptions & showing and telling.
15:31 What a line editor does. How the original paragraph can be improved.
17:25 Why these points on good prose writing are important.
