“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.”
Stephen King, On Writing. #Books #Bookshelf #writing
@cyrilpedia and avoid unnecessary adjectives in phrases like "little bit", "household pet", and "premeditated" act ;-)
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@richardsever Steve had just gone on anti-adverb rampage, maybe he wanted to keep some qualities.
