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		<title>Why unravel when you can tink or frog?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcia Riefer Johnston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 05:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why unravel when you could tink or frog? <a href="https://writing.rocks/tinking-frogging/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Put the customer first in your sentences (courtesy of KnowledgeOwl)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcia Riefer Johnston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2023 06:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In May, at the Write the Docs conference in Portland, I did something I had never done: I led an unconference session. That’s a small, casual, hey-anyone-want-to-talk-about-xyz? session that happens around one of many tables in a big room separate from the official conference talks. No stage. No microphone. No video camera. If you want to do an unconf on Tuesday... <a href="https://writing.rocks/put-customer-first-in-sentences-knowledgeowl/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously, this book seems to say. We might as well have the audacity to laugh. <a href="https://writing.rocks/tom-robbins-and-the-audacity-of-humor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcia Riefer Johnston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2021 22:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve been thinking about language that dehumanizes. I call myself out here as a hypocrite. <a href="https://writing.rocks/words-for-people/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Find Long Sentences Instantly in Your Microsoft Word Docs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcia Riefer Johnston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2020 07:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Try this easy macro to instantly find all your long sentences in a Microsoft Word document. You don't have to know anything about macros or code. <a href="https://writing.rocks/long-sentences-microsoft-word/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Highlight Passive Voice (and Be-Verbs in General) Instantly in Your Microsoft Word Docs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcia Riefer Johnston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2019 06:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Use this easy macro to highlight passive verb forms (and other be-verbs) instantly in a Microsoft Word document. You don't have to know anything about macros or code. <a href="https://writing.rocks/be-verbs-microsoft-word/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>“I Used to Be an Ex-Manager” and More Than over 1100+ Other Redundant Phrases</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2019 18:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dip in to this list anywhere, and give your inner editor’s funny bone a tickle. Take “hurriedly scurried.” Or “moral high horse.” Or “live studio audience.” “Old codgers.” “Old coots.” “Old fossils.” “Old ruins.” “Commonly available general knowledge that anyone would know.” I don’t make this stuff up. Bonus: Smiling at redundant phrases sharpens your writing. Warning: These things are addictive. <a href="https://writing.rocks/redundancylisthits1000/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How to Choose Your Words on the Web? Put Them to the Test</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcia Riefer Johnston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2018 22:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Even a slight change in wording can alter your text's impact on a given audience—and not always in the way you'd predict. <a href="https://writing.rocks/word-choice-testing-data/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Be-Verb Bumper Stickers Make a Comeback</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcia Riefer Johnston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2018 10:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A car pulled up next to my Prius at a stoplight in downtown Portland. The driver opened her window and asked, “What does your bumper sticker mean?” Through my passenger window, I told her that it means to look for verbs like “is” and “were” and “are,” and then consider how you might reword to make the writing tighter and more impactful. “You made my day," she said. <a href="https://writing.rocks/be-verb-bumper-stickers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hemingway’s Style and Today’s Business Writer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcia Riefer Johnston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2018 09:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My commitment to writing traces back to the moment I discovered "The Hemingway Reader." It’s one of the books I’d grab if our house were on fire. The observations and excerpts in Charles Poore’s foreword have shaped my writing efforts in journalism, playwriting, fiction, poetry, technical writing, marketing writing—every kind of writing I’ve ever done. <a href="https://writing.rocks/hemingway-style-business-writing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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