The Texture: How Adjective Density Impacts Your Writing Adjective density make your words feel heavy. The more adjectives you use, the heavier your sentences becomes. They begin to drag. Instead of absorbing the image, reader tally the words. And when you force yourself to check the density, you’re also forced to ask, “does each word […]

Don’t use extremely, really and very, so you’ve heard. These are some of the copyeditor’s go-to’s: Intensifiers undermine your work. They allow verb to do all the hard work. Makes sense on paper. But then when you take out every single one in your manuscript, you end up with something tinny, lifeless. It’s not about […]

The jargon density calculation (above) lets you know how readable your piece of text is. Does it contain lots of acronyms? Is it clear? You don’t want to guess. Most writers think they’re way closer than they are. They’re so close to what they wrote they can’t see the mess anymore, they forget that readers […]

Reading is hard when your sentences run on. That’s what happens when a writer connects more than one idea in a single breath. A lot of writers does that. They use conjunctions and commas to link point A to point B to point C. By then, the sentence has run completely off the rails. This […]