Jacob Szymanski

For example, the calming sensation that fell upon the praying congregation connected the community in ways nobody present could grasp.

It is very clunky and awkwardly rhyming to say the calming sensation that fell upon the praying congregation.

It just doesn't sound right.

You don't want to have two words that finish with T-I-O-N in the same sentence.

Ideally, it's not a deal breaker.

It doesn't sound good.

I can't explain it.

It just doesn't sound good.

If your screen reader has good pace when reading, then you know you're reading something good.

Another piece of advice that I've seen, and this is a really common one, is just to avoid filler intensifier words like very and really, quite, basically, quite, just, literally, that sort of thing.

You don't need to say...

I'm very tired.

You can just say, I'm tired.

It means the same thing.

Very, in that case, is just a filler word.

And if you say, I'm tired, it's more to the point.

It just reads better too.

You don't want to hear those words that often.

Exactly.

Yeah, no, very much so.