Slower writing is better writing. Rewrite always.
Writing is a
solitary, late night, early morning sort of thing. Unless you’re a literary
genius — a Shakespeare or a Crane — it’s never a one-shot deal, always
revision, revision, revision, over time. Writing well frustrates and exhausts,
and one soon begins to think he’d rather scrape the inside of his skull with a
spoon.
WRITE TO
EXPRESS, NOT TO IMPRESS. A great many people do write just to
impress. And because of that they write badly. They use language as a weapon.
Big, multi-syllabic, Latinate words are thrown around like brickbats in the
professional world. They are meant to impress, to intimidate, to demonstrate
vocabulary, to justify salary by making the simple seem complex and the
complex, impossible.
