Showing posts with label Plus 6 Tips to Get Your Writing in Shape. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

How Flabby Prose is like Flabby Arms—Plus 6 Tips to Get Your Writing in Shape

by DiAnne Mills @DiAnnMills

Not so long ago, I took a critical look at myself, and I didn’t like what the mirror revealed. I have flabby arms. Some of you call these bat wings or fly-zones. 

I refer to them as dangling participles, nothing I want on me or in my writing. 

Now, I’m a small person, and I exercise and lift weights, but still the flabby arms persist. What was I doing wrong? Had my body become accustomed to the same exercises?