On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
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On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
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amazon.com“All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don’t keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic is the glue that holds it together, that tension must be maintained from one sentence to the next and from one paragraph to the next and from one section to the next, and that narrative—good old-fashioned storytelli
... See moreH. L. Mencken said that “0.8 percent of the human race is capable of writing something that is instantly understandable.” He may have been a little high. Beware of dashing. “Effortless” articles that look as if they were dashed off are the result of strenuous effort. A piece of writing must be viewed as a constantly evolving organism.