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	Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose 3.94 avg rating — 2,352 ratings — published 1999 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writing 3.98 avg rating — 267 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age by Constance Hale (Goodreads Author), Jessie Scanlon 3.76 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Natives Are Restless: A San Francisco dance master takes hula into the twenty-first century 4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wicked Good Prose by Constance Hale (Goodreads Author), Coleen Marlo (Goodreads Author) (Reader) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	'Iwalani's Tree by Constance Hale (Goodreads Author), Kathleen Peterson (Illustrations) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Constance Hale's Lesson Plans for Teachers: Resources to Use with Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wicked Good Prose 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Constance Hale's Lesson Plans for Teachers it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sin and Syntax Publisher: Three Rivers Press 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Verbose is not a synonym for literary.”
― Constance Hale, Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose

tags: editing, writing-craft

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“The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.”
― Constance Hale

tags: grammar, prose

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“In French printer's jargon, cliche (which mimicked the sound of a mold striking molten metal) was a synonym for stereotype, which in turn evolved from the Greek for "solid impression." A stereotype was a printing plate that duplicated typography and that was used by the printer in lieu of the original.
So a cliche is a word or phrase used over and over again in lieu of the original.”
― Constance Hale, Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose

tags: cliche, on-writing, originality, printing, printing-press, stereotype, word-origins, writing

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“You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write puerile bilge, or you change. In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.”
― Billy Collins

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