Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips It is such a good favor when someone shows me one of my mistakes. I recently taught a class where the group walked through a series of instructions I had written. A stroke of brilliance—I rarely claim that, but in this case I do—came to me. I had a half dozen one-dollar […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Brevity and clarity are apt companions. The trouble is, they aren’t frequent companions.

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by Dwayne Phillips Change can be a nuisance—even change that leads to “better” things. Stuck in traffic. Hate it. And I have to stay further behind some annoying vehicles for fear of having a rock crack my windshield. Dump trucks. Everywhere I drove this week there were dump trucks. Up and down the roads. They […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Want to improve the world? Want to make life a little better for a few persons near you? Let’s keep this simple. Simply try to add a few… caring people drops of water breezes of cool air breezes of warm air kind words soft notes smiles Just a few positive notes usually […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Trying to edit the writing of yourself or someone else? Especially trying to shorten the writing? Simply delete the last phrase of a sentence the last sentence of a paragraph the last paragraph of a page the last page of a chapter the last chapter of a book the last section of […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes if we change one little word to another littler word, the message is received. I write this post from a local coffee shop. I have been coming to this local coffee shop to viewing the Internet and write various things for about ten years. Every now and then, one of the […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Please hire some editors in your business. They are need in many more ways than most persons expect. This is a post about editors—the human variety who read and change what others write. First, we have editors who collect writings from a variety of persons and combine them into one writing. Their […]

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by Dwayne Phillips If I cannot explain something with brevity and clarity, I am not ready to explain it. Gosh, that summary is a killer. I am ready to explain something. I have this earth-changing wonderful great super-duper (note the lack of brevity and clarity) idea that the world needs to hear and implement just […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Take care lest we forget the purpose of an endeavor. It is easy to lose our way. The numbers prove it (well, pretty much): these shoes from Nike help us to run more efficiently, i.e., same distance and speed, and more, with less energy consumed. Wow! I need these for my running! […]

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