Write Already
As Charlie Brown often said, "AUGH!"
I can't seem to write anything without immediately deleting it or editing it into gooey gibberish. I keep forgetting that this journal isn't a five-star restaurant requiring delicacies presented on the finest china. It's simply a food stand where people expect hot dogs wrapped in silver paper. What I'm trying to say is I don't need to use ten-dollar words to express two-cent thoughts. I need to stop being a blockhead and write already.
On a writing-related note, I recently came across the following excerpt from George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" that I wanted to quote for future reference:
"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus:- What am I trying to say?
- What words will express it?
- What image or idiom will make it clearer?
- Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
- Could I put it more shortly?
- Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?"
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