{"id":382,"date":"2024-08-31T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darrengemoets.me\/wp\/?p=382"},"modified":"2024-09-01T15:26:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T15:26:06","slug":"an-amazing-book-for-improving-your-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrengemoets.me\/wp\/2024\/08\/31\/an-amazing-book-for-improving-your-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"An amazing book for improving your writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"657\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/darrengemoets.me\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/writng_well.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-383\" style=\"width:308px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darrengemoets.me\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/writng_well.jpg 657w, https:\/\/darrengemoets.me\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/writng_well-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">I&#8217;m currently reading the book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/On Writing Well The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction By William Zinsser\">On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction<\/a><\/em> by William Zinsser.  As someone who is remediating his writing after a lifetime of neglect it is an amazing book. Even if you just read the first few chapters you&#8217;ll learn much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">To start: strive for simplicity. I am a wordy writer (which is odd coming from a math guy), but I now focus on removing text as I edit. This is key for scientific writing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading the book On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser. As someone who is remediating his writing after a lifetime of neglect it is an amazing book. Even if you just read the first few chapters you&#8217;ll learn much. To start: strive for simplicity. I am a wordy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrengemoets.me\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrengemoets.me\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrengemoets.me\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrengemoets.me\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrengemoets.me\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darrengemoets.me\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/darrengemoets.me\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrengemoets.me\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrengemoets.me\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrengemoets.me\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}