On the virtues of small words

Beginning writers tend to show off, and Tommy Tomlinson says he was no different before learning simplicity: "I wrote stories that flashed back and flashed forward and might have flashed sideways. I wrote sentences that twirled like an Olympic figure skater. Sometimes I still do those things if I’m tired, or if I’m trying to write around a lack of reporting, or if I get the big head and start to believe that the world does not have the proper appreciation for my prose."

April 12, 2015

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