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Legal Writing and Hemingway -- Writing Tips
Copyblogger gives Hemingway's top five tips for writing well. Suprisingly (or maybe not) the tips should also improve legal writing. First, use short sentences. Second, use short first paragraphs. Third, use vigorous English. Fourth, be positive, not negative.
Copyblogger says that Hemingway had only four rules, but he found a fifth that may be most important of all, especially to legal writing.
“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit,” Hemingway confided to F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. “I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.”
Very good advice!
Tomorrow, tips from George Orwell.
