Lecture 10 vague writing and initial coordinating conjunctions vague writing, the reader is relying on you, the author to tell the story in a way that is direct and dynamic. One thing that spoils this dynamic flow is writing in a vague way. be decisive when describing actions in your prose and it will improve your writing. Tell your reader what is not what might be what seems to be or what almost was. In these examples, he probably didn't see it. The probably really is not necessary.
It's tentative. He's very writing. We would simply write he didn't see it is a List of some other words like probably, that are called tentative and constitute vague writing. Perhaps, almost try tried trying something maybe, possibly, nearly sometime. A writer should be bold and decisive to create strong stories. You do this by making your characters bold and decisive.
Look at these two sentences. In the first one, maybe I'd like to take you out to dinner sometime. Now this is quite vague. Maybe I'd like to take you out to dinner sometime. The character should be bold and decide if I want to take you out to dinner tonight. Initial coordinating conjunctions are when words like and, but so, or, and yet, are capitalized and use to begin a sentence.
These words are normally used to link two sentences together. Now, it may not be strictly grammatically correct to begin a sentence with a conjunction, but within reason is acceptable, and it helps a story to flow. If he's not done too much in this sentence, and he had the nerve to call me a bigot. We don't use a comma. It's a matter of preference whether we use a comma or not in this sentence, so you want to marry my daughter. The comma indicates that you need to pause a little and it gives us a slightly different flavor without the comma It is simply so you want to marry my daughter.
It's a matter of choice that it changes the accent and the balance of the sentence. If you're in doubt, be the sentence out loud to see if the meaning is the same. Bear in mind that the best selling books have around 10% of initial correlative conjunctions in their sentences. So it's very acceptable in small doses.