I was going to write a clever Copyblogger-inspired post with Mark Twain quotes and writing tips to go.
I was going to write a Cosmo-style round up of impact-full "Dos" and "Don’ts", turned round for extra effect. ("Don’t bother to break up your paragraphs. Your writing’s so good that people will choose to read it anyway.")
I was going to do a round up of quotes, tips, and learning points from this month’s posts and comments.
But I’ve run out of both time and writing juice. And because I do read my own words I remembered that sometimes you just need to let your ideas go.
Mark Twain’s still going to get the last word though. After all, it’s partly down to him I decided not to squander another quire of paper 
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself…Anybody can have ideas–the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
Hi Joanne – That is so true. Sometimes less is more – although I did like the idea of your original post also.
It’s really annoying to read a long article that has been stretched out with flowery new age crap – when the writer could have said what they had to say in one paragraph.
Sorry – sorry – sorry. I’ve done it again. I’m determined to call you Joanne instead of Joanna. I honestly do get the two names mixed up all the time – sorry.
Hi Catherine
No worries about my name – I hadn’t mentioned it because I’m enjoying reading your comments so much
Especially this one -
“flowery new age crap”
Too right!
Joanna
Thanks for running the series!
Thanks Laura
I enjoyed writing it – this one seemed to fly, although I’m not entirely sure why. Some just seem to be easier to write than others
Joanna
Wow, thats quite a series of great posts. Thanks for showing them; quite a few I’d missed, it seems.
Hi Mark – I seem to remember being quite exhausted at the time when I looked back at all the posts I’d written that month! Hope you find something in amongst them that you enjoy
Joanna