On Writing Words: A Writer's Essential Relations With Words (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780615987682)

How to Make Good Writing Great

Are you overlooking the essential writing skill that turns good writing into great writing? Do you want to know the real secret of great writers? It's a secret hidden in plain sight. Great writers know that great writing depends on choosing the right words.

Choosing the Right Words

Why does choosing the right words matter so much? Writing is nothing more than choosing words and arranging them into a readable form. Great writing happens when your word choices communicate in a compelling way exactly what you mean to say to your readers and your readers understand exactly what you mean.

Choosing the right words sounds simple enough. But choosing the right words is not always easy.

Do you ever feel frustrated that you can't find exactly the right word to say exactly what you mean?

Do you feel upset when readers misunderstand what you are intend to say?

Do you feel that you need to expand your vocabulary to impress readers with your knowledge of impressive words?

Do you read the words of great writers and feel jealous that you can't write as well? Do you wonder what they know that you don't know?

Your Writing Can't Be Better Than Your Word Choices

The secret hidden in plain sight is that your skill as a writer depends on the quality of your relations with the words you use. The simple fact is that your writing can't be any better than your word choices.

The better you know your words and the better care you take of them, the better writer you will become.

Topics in On Writing Words

On Writing Words is not about writing technique. Rather it is about the essential relations between you and the words you use.

Topics include:

• Learning to Write
• Making Language Visible
• Relations with Words
• Relations or Relationship?
• Word by Word
• Using Words
• Words as Teachers
• Words Separate
• The Right Words
• Making Words Invisible
• Private Words and Public Words

What Your Words Can Do for You

When you pay close attention to your relations with words, words become more than tools. Words are the medium, the tools, and the product of your writing. Words can also be your teachers if you allow them to teach you. When you write, everything you do is about you and your relationship with language, one word at a time.

Find out how to expand your relations with words now.