Writing Clinic: Effective Sentences

30/04/2023

"Anyone who can write every good sentence is capable of writing a book."

21/04/2022

21/04/2022

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07/11/2020

“The argument is sometimes advanced, ‘What difference does the length of the sentence make so long as it is clear?’ But clarity is not the sole criterion; the important thing is ease of comprehension. And small blocks of meaning are more easily comprehended than large ones. After all, a quart of gin is perfectly clear, but you wouldn’t try to drink it all in one draught.”
- Theodore M. Bernstein, late assistant managing editor of The New York Times

25/10/2020

“There was a Monty Python sketch that showed Thomas Hardy writing in front of a live audience, and when he’d finish a sentence, they’d all cheer. Then he’d cross out a sentence, and they’d all boo or sigh. That’s about as exciting a life as it is for a writer: You write sentences, and you cross out sentences.”
— Paul Auster, postmodernist novelist

22/10/2020

The Writing Clinic supports the JCI THOS 2020!

20/10/2020

"It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her split infinitives snipping off dangling particles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen like perfect caramel." - David Leavitt

13/10/2020

"To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence is worthy to rank as a prize composition by itself. Anybody can have ideas- the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph." - Mark Twain

07/03/2020

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. -Plutarch