Change Is Highly Overrated
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July 25, 2010
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Yes, it’s ironic—I spend my days sitting here at my computer making changes
as I edit work by my authors and my own writing. Edit, edit, edit, change,
change, change. Please do not verbize nouns. Subjects and verbs need to
agree, and so do nouns and the pronouns that go with them. Avoid clichés.
How can you/how can I say this better? More clearly? How can we rephrase
this sentence or paragraph to make it more accessible to our readers who
don’t live in our heads with us?
Well, yeah, sometimes change is useful. I gotta admit it. I’m a sort of living changemaker. At the same time, though … I moved a month ago and I’m still looking at boxes. Not so many, thank Goddess.