Dear fellow writer,
Welcome to Swordcraft, my new series of short, sharp weekly videos for writers who want to hone their wordcraft, one snippet at a time.
Today’s 7-minute swordsnip is the second in a 6-part series for paid subscribers called The World of Wordcraft, which focuses on nitty-gritty issues of grammar, sentence structure, and style. We’ll look at all kinds of nouns (not just zombies!) in search of ones that our readers will stay in our readers’ minds.
The content of this sequence is loosely based on my book The Writer’s Diet, so I’ll be running a couple of free Writer’s Diet Clinics along the way to help you sharpen your style. Click here to learn more and register.
You may also want to check out my TED-Ed video “Beware of nominalizations (AKA zombie nouns),” which has amassed more than one million views on YouTube.
Want to delve deeper into the world of wordcraft? My 6-week Wordcraft Catalyst course (April 6 - May 16) started last week, but there’s still time to enroll. We’re having a blast taking sentences apart and putting them together again, clearer and sharper than before. I’d love to see you there!
Kia pai tō koutou rā (have a great day) – and keep on writing!
Helen
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