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Just one of those simpleminded Jacobs observations. The question I see adrift in the sea of questions on self improvement for authors is: What are some simple sentence hacks I can use to improve my writing?

Use fewer words. Use more effective words. Choose them wisely. Make better use of what words are chosen. Yep, it's that easy.

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Answer 1

Don't know if I'd call it easy. To some people writing what they want to write comes easily. There are younger people in the writers' group I go to who in an exercise timed at 10 minutes flat can write three pages of flowing narrative with dialogue thrown in and it's all in a coherent storyline. Not me. Others find it very much harder to write something that pleases themselves (me). I sometimes change word order within a sentence, definitely the order of the phrases to be more effective, and with a view to rhythm. Conciseness comes into it, but at the same time repetition can be called for. Using fewer words as a cast-iron truism used to be a thing with me -- but I think I spent far too long influenced by this quirk of Hemingway's. If you know good words, use 'em.

Answer 2

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