• SaltSong@startrek.website
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    1 day ago

    Larry Niven is not up everyone’s taste, but I find that his Laws, such as they are, stand up reasonably well. On writing, he said this:

    f you’ve nothing to say, say it any way you like. Stylistic innovations, contorted story lines or none, exotic or genderless pronouns, internal inconsistencies, the recipe for preparing your lover as a cannibal banquet: feel free. If what you have to say is important and/or difficult to follow, use the simplest language possible. If the reader doesn’t get it, then let it not be your fault.

    I wish this was taught in schools.

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      Lemmist: If the main idea is absent or completely hidden behind the verbiage then don’t sulk that people don’t try to get that idea.

      I wish this was taught in schools.