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Stephen King ‘On Writing’ quotes from 37 Signals

Posted on March 26, 2007, by dazzer67, under links, perspiration, writing.

Those nice peeps over at Signal vs. Noise, the blog from 37signals who brought us some wonderful Web 2.0 tools, have posted a nice list of quotes by Stephen King. All the quotes are nice and helpful for writers of all sorts of material.

What is even better is that the comments list below contains even more gems for writers, this is blogging and community led synergy at its best. So if you want some writing tips from one of the most successful writers of modern times follow the link below.

Stephen King quotes

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How to improve your vocabulary

Posted on March 11, 2007, by dazzer67, under preparation, writing.

I went to school with a very clever chap. He was always revising, and always getting good grades. When it came to his English exam he did all the usual study or grammar and reading of the set texts. He also spent several minutes each day reading the dictionary. At the time I thought this extreme, but he got a much better grade at English than I did.

Creative writing involves words. The more words we know, the more creative we can be. I am not advocating using words that no one knows, or are so obscure the reader hasn’t any idea what you are saying. Having a large vocabulary and one that is also growing is an essential tool for a writer.

One way of improving your vocabulary is to sign up for the wonderful Dictionary.com’s ‘word of the day’. You can subscribe to the RSS feed and you’ll get a new word each day. I have been using this for a while now. Each day I get a word and if I don’t know it, or I am unsure of its meaning, I take a moment or two to learn it. It may be too late to improve my English grade but I live in hope that my writing will become more colourful.

Word of the Day