4 Ways To Make Your Writing Pop
4 Ways To Make Your Writing Pop Education Writing and Communication: 4 Strategies for Improvement 1. Vibrant Verbs Make your verbs as specific as possible. Active verbs make your writing pop. Clutter your document or manuscript with passive verbs and you'll likely put your readers to sleep. Eliminate all forms of the verb to be (there were, there was, there are or any variation thereof) as well as the use of go, went, gone, has, have, had, get, got, going, be, been, being, am, is, are, was, and were. Ugh! These words not only force the reader to wait for the action or message but even hold your reader at arm's length. 2. Weak Words Weak words drag your writing down. Words like seem(s) or very add little to nothing to your writing. In fact, these words hold you back from the description or story that really needs to be on the page. Other words to avoid: feel, think, just, and almost. 3. Eliminate Directionals Directionals are usually redundant. This is one of my pet peeves as