Creating Strong Bones in Non-fiction Writing

Rochelle Deans
8 min readNov 10, 2021
Photo by Joyce McCown on Unsplash

Writing is easy. It’s one word after another, repeat until you reach the end. Writing well is incredibly complicated. It’s one right word after another right word, one right sentence after another right sentence, paragraph after paragraph, until — what was your point again? Did you make it effectively?

One of the things I often notice when I’m working with newer writers is a pattern of…

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Rochelle Deans

Editor, author, ADHDer. She/her. Editor of Building a Novel and Style Edit. Top writer in Fashion. I write about what interests me