Alphonsus Chong's Personal Wiki

• “You have to strip down your writing before you can build it back up” {sounds like OCS training}
• “A writing is obviously at his most natural and relaxed when he writes in the first person”
• “Sell yourself, and your subject will exert its own appeal”
• “Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it.”

• “Hassle” and “Freak” OK but “notables” and “greats” not
• “the pen must at length comply with the tongue” Samuel Johnson
• “In general we turned out to be liberal in accepting new words and phrases, but conservative in grammar” p.40
• “These may seem like picayune distinctions. They're not. They are signals to the reader that you are senstivie to the many shadings of usage.”

On Writing Well. William Zinnser

• 2017-06-01 Created on index card
• 2020-08-10 transcribed to dokuwiki with minor edits