If you read fiction being published today and compare it to that published 100 years ago, you’ll notice a significant difference, on the whole, in the way it is written. Fiction tended to be florid, full of graphic imagery and detailed description of mood and feeling. Then Hemingway’s muscular prose came along and led a charge to change all that. Can his approach can be adopted to increase the efficiency of writing your own blog?
Eschew Obfuscation, Espouse Elucidation
A phrase popularized by English teachers and professors since Hemingway helmed the paradigm shift from flowery to brusque, it directs the target to shun ambiguity and embrace clarity, thereby communicating the message more effectively.
Hemingway started out in 1917 at the Kansas City Star, and was apparently issued four writing rules for his reporting:
1. Use short sentences
Hemingway was renown for dispensing with gratuitous verbiage and cutting straight to the short, simple genius of word choice.
2. Use short first paragraphs
See #1.
If you ever do some professional copywriting, you’ll notice most “marketing gurus
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