http://upsidedowngrl.wordpress.com My way of venting out my exhaustions, confusions, excitements, and aggrevations in my world & those in and around it. Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://upsidedowngrl.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/tgif-just-another-day/#comment-215 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:06:39 +0000 http://upsidedowngrl.wordpress.com/?p=796#comment-215 Often, writers use several small and ambiguous words to express a concept, wasting energy expressing ideas better relayed through fewer specific words. As a general rule, more specific words lead to more concise writing. Because of the variety of nouns, verbs, and adjectives, most things have a closely corresponding description. Brainstorming or searching a thesaurus can lead to the word best suited for a specific instance. Notice that the examples below actually convey more as they drop in word count.

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]]> http://upsidedowngrl.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/starting-over/#comment-195 Wed, 20 May 2009 02:34:46 +0000 http://upsidedowngrl.wordpress.com/?p=754#comment-195 Do you have a copy of Writer’s Market?

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