Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity and humanity.
– William Zinsser
Tag: brevity
#quikfic no more
I’m ending the #quikfic feature. It’s been fun, and it’s a great exercise in brevity, but, well, I’ve done that and I’m done with it. And frankly, the chronic fatigue syndrome doesn’t make it easy to do a 140-character story every week. I just can’t pull together the mental resources to meet the challenge.
Thanks for reading the #quikfics, and I hope you enjoyed them.
That leaves even less reason for anyone to show up here, given that I don’t remember the last time I wrote a short story. I’m down to a haiku and a quote every week. I’ll see if I can’t come up with something else for you to enjoy when you visit.
Quotable 251
It wasn’t by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
– Ernest Hemingway
haiku 284
briefly sensible –
just a soda, not a soda
and a doughnut