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- bewerker (nl)
- American newspaper editor (en)
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- A Cavalcade of Lesser Horrors (en)
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- To the staff:
By and large your writing is clean and sharp. But not always. And there are still laggards among you. (en)
- Short paragraphs. Easy on the eye. Short story. Easy on the markup man AND the customer. Anybody can get all the facts in, given space enough. But it takes the skilled craftsman, the artist, to tell the same story, short and smart. (en)
- Short sentences. Old J.P. Harding, the restaurant man, told his meat cutters: “Slice it thin and it’ll never be tough.” Keep sentences short and you won’t puzzle the customers. Nor the city desk. (en)
- Short leads. What’s the copywriter going to say in the headline? Your lead should be the same thought with a bit of flesh over the skeleton. Ease the customer into the story. (en)
- Before you start writing your story, get the desk word as to length. Tell it in the length decided on. Tell it in broad strokes. Forget everything that isn’t vital. By writing it short you can write it whole. And it will do away with city desk surgery that may cut off your favorite paragraph or sentence.
Lane
Note: after you have mastered these rules, you’ll know enough to know when you can break them. (en)
- So— Short words. Anglo-Saxon words. The King James version has some fine ones. So does A. Lincoln. Let’s make it little Latin and less Greek. (en)
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- "The Gospel According to Clem" (en)
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