...for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone." ERNEST HEMINGWAY "I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. This is the way to write English — it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let...

...weigh a parcel of typescript. (Put one on your Christmas present list.) THE WORDS... AND PICTURES I notice that you use plain, simple language, short...It is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it. Mark Twain I can't pretend to teach you how to write. Each person's style is their own. I can do little...

...now - try not to have any paragraph longer than about four sentences, or sixty words. Count them. 'I notice that you use plain, simple language, short...is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it.' Mark Twain If I isn't using words right, this do be hard to grasp. It is fine to use simple, easy-to-understand...

...simple language, short words and brief sentences," Twain replied on March 20. 1880. "Th:il is the wav to write English— it is the modern way, and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff und flowers and verbosity creep in. \\ hen yon catch an adjective, kill it. No. I don't mean utterly,...

...Review www.vocabula.com Foreword In a letter to a twelve-year-old boy, Mark Twain wrote, "I notice you use plain, simple language, short words, and brief...don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in." Alas, with most of us, as we grow older, fluff and flowers and verbosity do creep in. Writing today...

...Thought Stoppers I have always loved to read Mark Twain. About the craft of writing, he told a friend, "I notice that you use plain, simple language, short...don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it." "I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and...

...effective writing. Cut the Verbal Fat In a letter to a twelve-year-old boy, Mark Twain wrote, "I notice you use plain, simple language, short words, and brief sentences. That is the way to write English—it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity...

...However, Twain did let a little "verbosity" creep into his 1880 letter to his friend as follows: "I notice that you use plain, simple language, short...is the way to write English - it is the modern way (in 1880) and the best way (in 2007). Stick to it; don't let fluff, flowers, and verbosity creep in....