When push comes to shove, your work has to elevate internally to the level where it is received well. You cannot rely on *other people* to clean your writing, make it interesting, make it shiny. YOU have to do it, learn it, trust yourself to do it.

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How not to write Popular Science I get sent many popular science books to review, a very small percentage of which are self-published (never one based on the author's 'new t...

After suffering considerable pain as a result of reading a popular science book I had been sent to review, I look at a few tips to help avoiding writing bad popular science: brianclegg.blogspot.com/2025/05/how-... #popularscience #writingskills #writingwell

Intelligenti pauca The moral of this tale is that writers should not pepper their work with Latin and other foreign words and phrases if there’s a good chance their readers will not understand them. And especially no…

Using too many Latin words and phrases in your writing can be off-putting. But it's good to know the meaning of those that are commonly used.
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