On Writing – Part III: To Be Brief or Not to Be
When I first started out, I read the "little book" by Strunk and White. Their mantra was: "Keep it short, stupid." So I wrote neat little sentences. Didn't work…
On Writing – Part II: Practice Makes Perfect
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle didn't just pop up one morning and write The Speckled Band; he wrote thousands of other words that nobody remembers today. And that's pretty much true of all the great writers: The stuff we read is really just the tip of iceberg. So start writing.