Category: Writing Revisions

  • Transition Words and Phrases: Avoiding Box Car Writing

    Transition Words and Phrases: Avoiding Box Car Writing

    If you stand next to the tracks when a train is traveling by it’s likely to make you dizzy (particularly if you stand too close). Pretty soon, the monotony of box cars or oil tanks, passing in front of you, one after the other, creates a lull on thinking. You could try to count them,…

  • Direct and Active Writing: Strength in Clarity

    Direct and Active Writing: Strength in Clarity

    Bronco Nagurski was a football and wrestling legend from International Falls, MN. In college he played for the University of Minnesota (1927-1929) and when he turned professional, played as a tackle on defense and as fullback on offense for the Chicago Bears (1930-1937). His strength was like no other players on the field. After he…