Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes.

Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.

Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes.

There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.

Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.

Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.

Never say anything in writing that you wouldn't comfortably say in conversation. Be yourself when you write. If you're not a person who says 'indeed' or 'moreover,' or who calls someone an individual ('he's a fine individual'), please don't write it.