In Writing Magazine (September 2009) www.writingmagazine.co.uk Tony Rossiter writes about what you can learn from one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers.
He discusses Orwell’s 6 elementary rules but under the 6th Break any of these rules rather than write anything outright barbarous, Rossiter quotes Orwell as saying ‘Good Prose is like a window-pane.’ He believed that before putting pen to paper a writer should ask himself 4 key questions:
1. What am I trying to say?
2. What words will express it?
3. What image or idiom will make it clearer?
4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
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