Little lessons to make your writing shine.
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Small Change is a series of bite-sized lessons and stories to help you write better. You can read them below or follow along in real-time as they land in your inbox (nearly) every week.
The archives👇
Meet anaphora, the hot cousin of the parallel construction family
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.
Same same but different - parallel construction
Parallel construction is the writing equivalent of dressing twin toddlers in the same outfit so people know they’re twins and say “Awww, twins!“.
On capitalising job titles
For some reason, we tend to capitalise the crap out of everything even remotely associated with work.
The ominous ellipsis
Pound for pound, this grammatical symbol is unmatched when it comes to creating drama.