25 tips to sharpen your writing: Want to learn some ways to strengthen, energize, clarify and trim your words? Here are a few tricks of the trade from a "writer" editor.

This article presents a list of 25 suggestions for ways that authors can improve their writing. The author provides several suggestions for writing leads and openings that engage readers and that use smooth transitions to maintain their interest. Other suggestions are about crafting clear sentences and not assuming that readers have too much pre-knowledge of a subject. The author also suggests that writers use verbs to make their sentences more exciting.