So, ladies and gentlemen, that really is it. Almost everything I know about writing. Hopefully at least some of what I’ve said has stuck in your head, or hit home, or got you thinking in a different way. On first reading, it’s unlikely that you’ll have taken everything in (after all, it’s been a list of more than three things), but keep this on your desk and on a slow day you’ll be able to dip in for a linguistic top-up.
But because I’m a pessimist about my readers (yes, even you) and because I know just how many people skip to the back of whodunnits to find out, well, whodunnit, before returning to the beginning and congratulating themselves ...
Get Brilliant Business Writing, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
