Kurt Vonnegut: don't waste your readers precious time writing words that are of no value to them... It may be that you, too, are capable of making necklaces for Cleopatra, so to speak. But your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, ... Read full entry
Today’s writing tip: scratch out don’t stretch out
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 15 July, 2008 to the comment subset
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