To have a beautiful written style is always nice.
But to have a damn good story is essential.
– Joanne Harris
Tag: style
Quotable 155
Tell a story! Don’t try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first.
– Anne McCaffrey
Pen to Paper: Long Live the Serial Comma
Let me come straight out with it: I like the serial comma. It has an elegance and often a usefulness that I appreciate. Still, I don’t go into a meltdown when a writer doesn’t use one (unless it would have improved the sentence); there are bigger dragons to battle.