Posts Tagged ‘overly proscriptive’

  • Do Not Start A Story With The Protagonist Waking Up

    Do Not Start A Story With The Protagonist Waking Up

    September 6th, 2012 | Writing | journalpulp | 2 Comments

    “Do not start a story with the protagonist waking up,” says Joe Konrath. But with him here — as with so many other things — I must demur. Konrath’s peevish list of proscriptions came to my attention recently via Radical Roz Morris, who wrote about another preposterous notion Mr. Konrath (along with many others) has: […]

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  • George Orwell: On Writing, On Clarity Of Thought

    George Orwell: On Writing, On Clarity Of Thought

    September 3rd, 2012 | Writers | journalpulp | No Comments

    “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity,” wrote George Orwell, “and when there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.” I confess I myself sometimes feel like that cuttlefish spurting out ink, but […]

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