Tag: active voice
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How To Keep Zombie Sentences From Infecting Your Writing
I’ve previously warned of the dangers of writing with vampire words – those useless words and phrases that latch on to sentences and bleed them dry of meaning and vitality; bloodsuckers like “focus” and “prioritize” and “process.” In sticking with the horror theme, this post is about zombie sentences, those lifeless clumps of words that…
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Guidelines for a Darn Good Press Release Headline
Editors and journalists get a ridiculous number of press releases in their inbox every day. It isn’t just this week’s news that a press release completes with it’s releases from prior weeks, being re-sent and re-packaged to find new coverage. It’s a tough, competitive world for each press release. Even if you have a newsworthy…