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Re:Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear by rnprdk on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @12:56PM (#7225965)
A fun contrast to this would be kottke.org's "Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace" from a while back: http://kottke.org/09/03/growing-sentences-with-david-foster-...

Also: I haven't read a whole lot of Hemingway, but when I did read him, I always thought he was much more versatile a writer than made out to be.

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Re:Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear by lutusp on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @01:08PM (#7226062)
> I haven't read a whole lot of Hemingway, but when I did read him, I always thought he was much more versatile a writer than made out to be.

Remember that Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and many other writers began as newspaper reporters, where over time they learned to express complex stories with the fewest words.

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