The Life-Changing Art of Tidying Up Your Sentences

 

In this 30-minute nonfiction and memoir instructional video, writing teacher and book writing coach Brad Wetzler discusses tangible ways that writers can clean up their sentences and write more powerfully.

Here are a few concepts that Brad discusses:

1. Lean on strong verbs.

2. Lose the adverbs.

3. Lose adjectives when possible, too.

4. Lose little qualifiers such as “a bit,” “sort of,” “a little.”

5. Lose vague conceptual nouns.

6. Avoid overstatement and hyperbole.

 

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Brad Wetzler

Brad Wetzler is an author, journalist, editor, book writing instructor, memoir coach and mentor, and yoga instructor. His articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, GQ, National Geographic, Newsweek, Wired, Men's Journal, Travel + Leisure, George, Best American Travel Writing, and Outside, where he was a senior editor and contributing editor. His book, Real Mosquitoes Don't Eat Meat, was a collection of columns he wrote for Outside.Brad writes, teaches, coaches, and mentors from his home in Austin, Texas. His memoir, Into the Soul of the World, will be published in spring 2023.