A Very Good Blog About A Fairly Common Problem

Mark Twain said, “Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

Now Ali Hale of Copyblogger has brought us Are Vampire Words Sucking the Life Out of Your Writing?. If you’re a writer in any capacity — copywriter, blogger, journalist — read this article and take it to heart. Print out a list of these wishy-washy modifiers and post it next to your monitor.

Now please excuse me; I need to go back through four years of blogs and clean up my act.

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