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The Writing Guy episodes
- Episode 65, how to write with 'panache' (merci, Cyrano de Bergerac)Inspired by the verse play, 'Cyrano de Bergerac', how do we write with dash and panache?7 min
- Episode 64, The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell BerryIf you're suffering with anxiety like me at the moment, read (out loud) this beautiful poem. Is it better than valium? You be the judge of that.6 min
- Episode 63, on this day in 1861 Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as 16th PresidentScott looks at a couple of the rhetorical devices in Lincoln's 1863 Gettysburg address that make the nation-forming speech iconic.7 min
- Episode 62, when is it OK to use the passive voice?Scott describes four scenarios where it serves us to use the passive voice.8 min
- Episode 61, troll Slippy and his love of the passive voicePassivitis - over-use of the passive voice - is the carbon monoxide of business writing. Good writers have a CO alarm in their locker.6 min
- Episode 60, synonyms for 'tired', and troll SlippyInformal and formal synonyms for 'tired'. Plus, we meet the next writing troll, Slippy.7 min
- Episode 59, how writing troll #3, Gushy, uses adjectivesGushy must learn to use adjectives that inform rather than emphasise.4 min
- Episode 58, The Song of HiawathaHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, author of this 1855 epic poem written in trochaic tetrameter, was born today, 27 Feb.9 min
- Episode 57, abstractionism ad absurdum - a new writing syndromeAbstract, non-concrete language is not clever: it just obscures your message to the reader. Abstruse, ie hard to understand, is a close cousin of abstract.8 min
- Episode 56, how not to write like Gushy, troll #3Avoid the Hysterical School of Writing, which tells rather than shows. To persuade your reader, you must show more than you tell.8 min
About The Writing Guy
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A daily exploration of the written word from a seasoned writer and writing skills trainer, to help you improve your English writing skills. The pod covers persuasive writing, therapeutic writing,…
rhythm, poetry and poetic meter, grammar, punctuation and voice.