I’ve spent my whole career editing other people’s words at all sorts of publications and settings (even Ceefax!). I’ve noticed a few things that make all writing better, from novels to diary entries, news reports to essays. So I thought I’d share them in a thread.... 1/ Writing is embroidery. You’re stitching together ideas – often good ones – with contextualising phrases. If the stitching is poor, the garment will fall apart, no matter how beautiful the fabric. Work as hard on the words that hold ideas together as the words that convey them.