Saturday, August 1, 2015

How to improve writing (no. 61)


[Mark Trail, August 1, 2015.]

“Any signs of anything”: ponderous. “In this area”: obviously. Mark has traveled into the Gulf of Mexico, where Mississippi Ken [sic ] and Foxylocks Kelly [sic ] have a dead shark on ice for him. Omit needless words.

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[This post is no. 61 in a series, “How to improve writing,” dedicated to improving stray bits of public prose.]

3 comments:

  1. I was thinking you could cut "take a quick" too, leaving "I want to look underwater...", but how much can you cut before you lose the flavor of speech?

    Hm. That makes me wonder, does Mark have a distinct way of speaking?

    Frex = Fresca

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  2. Ponderously and quaintly. As in his use of the word “fellows.”

    Yes, if you go too far, he’ll begin to sound like a telegram.

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  3. "Ponderously and quaintly."
    So dear!

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