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Black space: improving writing by increasing lexical density

Dec 09, 2013 | Category: writing
Style ... is not—can never be—extraneous Ornament... ‘Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manusc...
#Slow Writing #nominalisation #EB Strunk #Kerry Pulleyn #lexical density #Stephen King

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