Comments on: Choose your words with care http://confidentwriting.com/2007/08/choose-your-wor/ Kindness, clarity, confidence, compassion. Watchwords for writing on the web. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Write Like a Black Belt: Guest Post by Lori Hoeck | Confident Writing http://confidentwriting.com/2007/08/choose-your-wor/#comment-21322 Write Like a Black Belt: Guest Post by Lori Hoeck | Confident Writing Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:53:52 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=146#comment-21322 [...] a writer this means judiciously attacking sloppiness and being powerfully precise with each word and [...] [...] a writer this means judiciously attacking sloppiness and being powerfully precise with each word and [...]

]]> By: Joanna Young http://confidentwriting.com/2007/08/choose-your-wor/#comment-296 Joanna Young Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:04:19 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=146#comment-296 Hi Matt, thanks for the Kipling reminder (I love collecting writing quotes). I agree about not rushing - it's tempting when the virtual world seems to move so fast, but there's a lot to be said for the old advice of sleeping on it... Joanna Hi Matt, thanks for the Kipling reminder (I love collecting writing quotes).

I agree about not rushing – it’s tempting when the virtual world seems to move so fast, but there’s a lot to be said for the old advice of sleeping on it…

Joanna

]]> By: Matt http://confidentwriting.com/2007/08/choose-your-wor/#comment-295 Matt Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:42:03 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=146#comment-295 " ... it's worth spending those extra few minutes to choose your words with care ... " It certainly is! I think I agree with Rudyard Kipling when he said that "words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind". It's important not to let the immediacy of mediums like the web rush your writing. Great post. ” … it’s worth spending those extra few minutes to choose your words with care … ”

It certainly is! I think I agree with Rudyard Kipling when he said that “words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind”.

It’s important not to let the immediacy of mediums like the web rush your writing. Great post.

]]>