Re:Hemingway Editor
by the_af on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:37PM
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> Good writing is not an intrinsic property of the text - it is defined within a context of message and reader.
Exactly. Hemingway himself wasn't a mechanical automaton blindly following his own rules. He broke them when it suited him. Style in writing isn't a process that can be applied in a mechanical fashion. Instead, _taste_ must be exercised.
Exactly. Hemingway himself wasn't a mechanical automaton blindly following his own rules. He broke them when it suited him. Style in writing isn't a process that can be applied in a mechanical fashion. Instead, _taste_ must be exercised.