Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Mark Twain

In Mark Twain's Letter to Orion Clemens, 23 March 1878 he said "You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God’s adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by." I think that that is true. If you think that what you write will be perfect the first time then you are destined to fail. You have to re-read what you write and fix the things that are wrong. You also have to make sure you don't put adjectives close to each other. Adjectives are better when they are further apart because they will be more meaningful. The same is true when your blogging. If you don't check what you write and use a lot of adjectives people are going to think that you are dumb. They are going to think that you are just some unintelligent idiot that just decided to make a blog on his computer. You have to make sure that you re-read what you write to make sure it sounds good.

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