• Ramblings

    Writing

    I write a lot at work, or rather, I emailed a lot at work. And because it is work email, my writing tends towards what I call ‘work writing’. Work emails tend to be factual, precise and to the point.

    On the other hand, writing for leisure, in my case, blogging, tends to be more casual, or what I call ‘leisure writing’. It should be creative, less restrictive, more ‘ebb and flow’. And as I hardly write for leisure anymore, I feel that whatever I am writing becomes ‘work writing’.

    I need to do more ‘leisure writing’.

  • Ramblings

    Orwell’s Six Rules on English Language

    George Orwell’s six rules on English Language:

    1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
    2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
    3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
    4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
    5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
    6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

    I shall try to remember.