Ready to learn from a writing professor? In this instant-classic, Helen Sword tells us about her book The Writer's Diet and what exactly are Zombie Nouns—and why we should avoid them like the living-dead.

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Links:

• The Writer's Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose — Get this one!
• Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write
• Helen Sword's Amazon Page
• air light time space — The poem Helen mentioned by Charles Bukowski
• The Writer’s Diet — The website
• The Writer’s Diet Test — Go here to take the Writer's Diet Test. Pop your writing in here and see the results.
• The Writing BASE
• Zombie Nouns (Youtube) — A very well done video by TED-Ed with Helen on Zombie Nouns.
• Nominalizations Are Zombie Nouns - The New York Times
• J.A. Medders (@mrmedders) | Twitter
• Expository Mutterings - J.A. Medders
• Gospel Formed: Living a Grace-Addicted, Truth-Filled, Jesus-Exalting Life — My first book.