From the category archives:

Writing

If you do any sort of technical writing on WordPress, you have likely run into the wonderful little quirk of it turning your lovingly formatted double dashes '--' into singe em dashes. Rather annoying.
To add insult to injury, the silly thing shows them as double dashes in the editor, but then renders them as em [...]

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In this post I offered three tips on writing that make it easier for your reader. Someone anonymously left the following comment.
Is this like the April 1st-type advice? Clearly, these tips are about writing for rejectees from “Are you smarter than a 5th grader?”…. Come on!
Not the most constructive comment, but he does bring up [...]

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Are you wearing your readers out?
Are you making it hard for us to read what you have to say?
Are you making it hard for us to understand what you are trying to tell us?
Last week I attended a class called "Customer-Focused Writing." Don't go away yet. Customer in this case means whoever is reading your [...]

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