Thursday, March 15, 2012

Readability

Making a text readable takes work. Anyone can write long run-on sentences containing many clauses, if the goal is simply to impress people with your difficulty. The novelist who wishes to compete with other media needs strikingly readable prose. Which means going through every sentence, winnowing and compressing while maintaining the same ideas, strengthening the narrative thereby, doing more with less. Making less have more impact.

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