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Letting The Writing Juices Flow
Whenever you’re writing, always keep your reference guides handy. Instead of pausing to think about the correctness of your sentence structure or to come up with an alternative phrase, you can simply consult them and continue your writing. Pauses, as any writer who have been through the fire knows, can break the flow and leave your momentum stymied.
Does a sentence sound incorrect? If you can’t fix it immediately either by drawing from your own experience or the all-in-one writing software running on your desktop, just leave it in the meantime. When writing, it’s frequently more important to keep your thrust going forward than to worry about pleasing the grammar gods – at least, until you’ve put all your main ideas to the page.
That’s precisely why I’m a major advocate of most any technological tool that can aid in writing. Software applications, with their automated functions, help correct problems and mistakes while making no requirements that distract your attention away from the main job. What kinds of tools am I talking about? Personally, I’m a huge fan of the following:
1. Desktop-based thesaurus and dictionaries. Looking for an alternate word or unsure of the current one’s meaning. Simply look it up and you’ll get an answer in less than five seconds.
2. Text expanders. If you do repetitive writing (such as headers, slogans or keywords), text expanders can shorten your typing duties immensely.
3. Spelling and Grammar checkers. Instead of having to ponder the correctness of your words and sentences, you can simply run a grammar software to proofread your copy for adherence to English rules and spelling.
4. Style checkers. Good writing often entails more than grammatically-correct copy. Style checkers help you shape that writing into a form that’s sleeker and more succinct – just like an athlete ready to take the game to the next level.
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