Verbs, explainers, edits: 3 posts about writing
Writing tips and exercises I thought about this year.
Dear fellow writers,
If you’ve been here before, you noticed that this newsletter stopped. Why? Read my announcement from May 2025. I thought I’d leave it at that. Then the alerts rolled in: New people signed up. For this newsletter! Thank you!!
Now, I don’t not write about writing. But I still can’t write about writing on the regular. And if I did, I’d ask you to abandon writing “don’t not write”.
Now, what?
I’m going to give you the links to writing tips and exercises I published elsewhere. Whenever a month has five Thursdays, I write about writing at Climate Culinarians - unless readers will start to complain.
So if you want me to keep going, read, like, share, comment on … one of these:
Here’s a hack for a dull text: Pay attention to your verbs! These four tips and a quick exercise will inspire you.
The facts are tricky. The concept is complex. Learn how to write explainers your readers will understand - and enjoy.
Paragraphs, words, whole pages have been cut from published works. But few writers find it easy to let go of words. Try this!
The latest piece just went online, it’s the one with the verbs. The next one will come up in January. So I may post another summary here … some time in 2026.
Meanwhile, keep writing and reading! And thank you for learning (and possibly switching newsletters?) along with me.
Petrina