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The opening words of Strunk & White were never more applicable: vigorous writing is concise. Keep it short and to the point. Test it on readers. Do they unders
by gallerytungsten 16y ago
The opening words of Strunk & White were never more applicable: vigorous writing is concise.
Keep it short and to the point. Test it on readers. Do they understand? Great writing is produced by great editing. An iterative process.
The $10-15k comment sounds wacky to me. You can hire a decent editor off your local craigslist for 25-50 an hour. But you probably need to bring it in-house; you'll need to pivot your prose points pretty phrequently.
PS:
"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."
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