Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Write Like Ernest Hemingway

Well, maybe not. But Brian Clark of Copyblogger has a solid piece up, featuring "five tips" from the master. I'm a Hemingway fan, and you should be too, if you want to write stuff that gets in people's heads and stays there. Here's tip # 1:
1. Use short sentences.
Hemingway was famous for a terse minimalist style of writing
that dispensed with flowery adjectives and got straight to the point. In short, Hemingway wrote with simple genius.

I recommend getting the rest.

1 comment:

  1. 'Vigorous writing is concise.' -Strunk and White

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