C. S. Lewis rules of good writing | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Mon, 02 Dec 2013 18:39:42 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg C. S. Lewis rules of good writing | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 C.S. Lewis’s Five Commonsensical Rules of Good Writing https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/01/some-good-writing-tips-from-c-s-lewis/ Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:51:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/12/01/some-good-writing-tips-from-c-s-lewis/  What really matters is:– 1. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else. 2. Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’timplement promises, but keep them. 3. Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you […]

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