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George Orwell Hated Crappy Writing
By Mark A. McCutcheon 15 March 2011 @ 10:39pm
http://onehundredonebooks.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/george-orwell-hated-crappy-writing/
A digest of Orwell's still recommended rules for good writing in English, taken from his essay "Politics and the English Language."
Also good, from the same blog, only more fiction-specific: Jonathan Franzen's ten rules for writing. Well, number eight isn't so fiction-specific:
8. It’s doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
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