Here’s a one liner that’s been permanently engraved in my mind the moment it was uttered by a senior journalist I met when I first started working:
“Write to express, not to impress.”
This is part of Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday:
http://lindaghill.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/one-liner-wednesday-in-the-end/
Absolutely. You write to impress and most people use words they don’t understand but want to use them anyway. You write to express, the language stays simpler but means more.
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I have to say this: word. π
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Excellent advice! π
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And thanks for joining in this week! π
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Pleasure! π
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Indeed!
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A wonderful guideline to write by!
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Indeed. Oh gosh, I remember the advice, but now I have trouble recalling the name of the person who gave it to me haha. Freddie or Frankie??
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either way – very useful!
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