October 2016

Sentence Tightening

This video offers several strategies for improving sentence-level clarity. This and other helpful videos can be viewed on our YouTube channel. US Represented owns this video and its contents, and unauthorized use is prohibited.

Praying for a Righteous Smack Down: The Amazing Adventures of Smitey Man

Let’s say something bad happens to a guy. Maybe we don’t know if he had it coming. It could be a car accident, a life-altering injury, or a terrible disease. Perhaps he loses everything he owns in a natural disaster, or worse, gets caught with his hands in a metaphorical cookie jar. One day, everything’s fine, the next, curtains. This isn’t a difficult scenario to imagine. It only takes a glance around

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Sentence Types

This video discusses the subject-verb relationship, active versus passive construction, and the four sentence patterns: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Enjoy!

Cutting Down the Old Growth

March has ended once more. In Tennessee the trees are gowned with light green, in Washington cherry trees sparkle white-pink parasols. Here the mountain crevices still glow white, stale sky shining behind clouds tinged with gray. Blind to the calendar, the cold parches grizzled brush, and small green globes among the roots drowse. This time last year the sun burned bright, tepid gusts pummeling us while we sawed rubbered wood, breaking

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Conspiracy Therapy

I’ll tell you right now, Doc, I’m not the crazy one. Like I was saying at the end of our last session, there’s a hidden hand behind every world-changing event on this planet, and the only reason most people don’t know this is because they don’t want you to know. We’re all slaves to a hidden agenda, and they’re not going to stop until they’re in control of a one-world

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