George Orwell’s Six Rules for Writers

Found via the always-interesting Daily Obsessional blog: George Orwell’s Rules for Writers:

Roberta Rosenberg wrote:

He forgot #7: Get paid.

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Posted 14 May 2009 at 5:21 am (Quote) ¶
Ragnar wrote:

Hmm, I have to agree with his rule #6 more than the others at least on an individual level.

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Posted 14 May 2009 at 2:26 pm (Quote) ¶
John Soares wrote:

I fully agree with #1. The others are a bit more problematic. For example, I use longer words when they are more precise.

Posted 14 May 2009 at 4:30 pm (Quote) ¶
Raj wrote:

These have been paraphrased a little bit. They’re originally from Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language”. Here’s the wikipedia entry for the essay, with links to complete online versions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Language
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Posted 09 Sep 2009 at 6:56 am (Quote) ¶

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