Against Excessive Verbiage
Art Pepper’s “Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise” just played on my LastFM neighborhood radio station and I thought, “what other kind of sunrise is there?” That’s a good reminder for me as I work on revising two anthology contributions (one for an anarchist studies reader, the other for a collection of reflections by female animal advocates).
As George Orwell wrote in one of the most useful pieces of writing about writing: “If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.” As the often excessive verbosity of my blog posts demonstrate, I need to be more mindful of that rule.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
HAHAHAHA — morning sunrise — that’s perfect. Yet sadly, I can see myself using that sort of phrase.