Learning to Write II

Snow blanketed the field. This is not good enough. You have to find fresh language.
In Learning to Write I I quoted Ezra Pound. Here is something else he said: Make it new.
By this he meant exactly what he said, but he also meant that you should make it specific rather than general. Don’t say [...]






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