![]() ![]() Very easy to get tangled up in your fancy pants, fancypants. Most good writing is good, simple writing. Slaughtered, incinerated bodies everywhere.Ģ. And some of what may be most useful to you about this book are the before/after examples. You knew that, right? Even though most of us who write mostly on our blogs mostly don’t. Here’s what Zinsser might say to that: Why don’t you just tell them what the book is about, and what you got out of it? (Only, you know, he’d do it better. Or maybe I should say, if I were the writer I dreamed of being back when I first dreamed of being a writer, I could write the review I had somewhere in the back of my head: that perfect review that made the book come alive, that explained it perfectly, in words that danced around on the page in fancy clothes, as I’d always imagined my words doing when I finally got my word-choreographer chops. ![]() If I were a better writer, I’d be able to do justice to On Writing Well, William Zinsser’s own brilliant writing on writing. ![]()
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