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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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The Writing-Practice Journal #202675 added October 30, 2002 at 1:27pm
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George Orwell Sayeth
Sometimes, I run across a quotation on writing that in a nutshell says what I have observed or learned.
This is a short list of rules from
Politics and the English Language,by George Orwell, 1946
(i) Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print
(ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do.
(iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
(iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active.
(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
(vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
One may or may not like George Orwell’s writing, but what he says about writing is true. Yet, the most important rule of his rules is the last one. In short, he means to tell me to use COMMON SENSE!
Today’s tip:
Even a list could be made interesting if begun with the least important item and ended with the most important one.
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