Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.

- Constance Hale

A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? T…

- Constance Hale

Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man and the Sea. T…

- Constance Hale

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.

- Constance Hale

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and sh…

- Constance Hale

Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's the line…

- Constance Hale

Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let them glide, rather…

- Constance Hale

Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.

- Constance Hale

Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arr…

- Constance Hale