Richie Billing > Quotes

“Orwell provided six guidelines to consider when writing prose: 1. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print; 2. Never use a long word where a short one will do; 3. If it is possible to cut out a word, always cut it out; 4. Never use the passive [voice] where you can use the active; 5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent; 6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.”
― Richie Billing, A Fantasy Writers' Handbook