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Bennett on style: seven questions for your own draft, from Literary Taste (1909)
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A documentary note on Chapter VI of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste, turned into seven self-check questions for a writer polishing their own script or copy. It is a reading of one Project Gutenberg file, not a tested workflow, and does not say Bennett is right.
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Bennett on style: seven questions for your own draft, from Literary Taste (1909)
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A documentary note on Chapter VI of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste, turned into seven self-check questions for a writer polishing their own script or copy. It is a reading of one Project Gutenberg file, not a tested workflow, and does not say Bennett is right.
Useful starting points
- Before polishing a paragraph, write its idea in one plain sentence; if you cannot, the trouble is the thinking, not the phrasing.
- Check whether any sentence is there only for its sound; Bennett warns that sound alone does not carry a style.
- When you cannot decide about a passage, judge its matter alone and set the question of style aside.
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