February 2012
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(i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
(ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do.
(iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
(iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active.
(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
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“Atop a raw rock he sat the horse and studied the country. The flooded saltflats...”
– Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain
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“He ate his lunch at noon in an outcropping of lava rock with a view across the...”
– Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain
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