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Just found these excerpts from On Writing Well by William Zinsser. Excellent advice. Reminds me of the advice given by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in his superb lectures on his appointment in 1913, to the University of Cambridge, called On the Art of Writing which I read while zooming down Oxford Street sitting on the upstairs back seat of a number nine bus a few months ago. I spent about three days digesting the lot. The result is an appreciation of when not to write. I have to prepare an essay and a lecture based on it for this Monday and next Monday respectively. I must have written three times the amount of material. Now I need to just print it out, remove all the rubbish, piece it all together like a jigsaw, then print it out again and remove all the rubbish. A few more iterations, and maybe two or three taped trial runs and I’ll be polished.
