45 Quick Word Replacements for Good, Great, Awesome and Other Boring Superlatives

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Great, excellent, amazing, awesome (our personal favorite); these are just a few stale superlatives stymying your writing. As the Wise, Ink team were working on our own book project, we were shocked to find the obscene number of “really greats” and “very goods” that peppered our precious book content. The overuse of words like terrific, amazing, and awesome are boring and pedestrian. We’re among friends, so we’ll admit that it was not only embarrassing, but downright lazy on our part to rely so heavily on “great” and other past-its-prime word choices. Thus, we sought several resources to help eliminate this and developed a list of words we’re committed to using from now on. Use powerful superlatives that enhance your blogs,… [read more]

The 10 Wordiest Expressions You Should Strike From Your Writing…Now!

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After reading William’s Zinsser’s On Writing Well it became clear that I had a problem. I was a verbose writer who used far too many words to make a point. I could go on and on. I had a habit of wallowing in an abyss of redundancy before getting to my point. Think about it. How often have you chosen a three- or four-word phrase in lieu of one word? We all do it. So without further adieu (and rambling) here are the ten wordiest expressions that drive readers crazy: 1. At this point in time – Replace with: Now 2. At which time when – Replace with: During 3. As a result of – Replace with: Because 4. With… [read more]