Are your sentences overly long and confusing? In this post, I’m going to share 6 ways to improve your writing. Long sentences can be dangerous. When our sentences are too long, we tend to lapse into the passive voice and we risk making tense and punctuation mistakes. Run-on sentences also distract the writer and the reader. We tend to veer off course and […]

6 Ways To Improve Your Writing — Douglas W.T. Smith

Anyone else have issues writing ridiculously long sentences? Every single time I put my writing into Grammarly, no matter how hard I try, it always says I have considerably longer than average sentence length. I’m just a long sentence kind of person, but sometimes, that can be a bad thing.

Considering the subject matter, it’s very fitting that Smith’s post is concise – something I know we all appreciate in our busy lives. It’s a very quick read, but packed full of important tips on how to improve the readability of your writing. I tend to talk a lot about storytelling, but if you have the best story in the world written with overly long and confusing sentences, none of the beautiful storytelling elements will come across…

…and that’s why this post is so important. I really hope you’ll take a look!

-E.J.