Four Laws of Good writing

MyFellowWriters
2 min readDec 14, 2020
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My fellow writers, I hereby present to you, the four laws of good writing. These are Clarity, Conciseness, Imagination, and simplicity. Every tip and technique shared will boil down to these indispensable laws.

Clarity — every good write up is fluid and easy to absorb. If your reader has to re-read sentences to gain clarity of your ideas, then your write up is bulky and not fluid. The key here is easy absorption.

Conciseness— Have you ever read a sentence that never seemed to end, and then you had to trace several lines back to look for the last period or comma? This is because the writer needed a lesson on minimalism. Good writing is the art of speaking volumes with as few words as possible.

Imagination — Good writing is the art of stirring up the imagination of your reader with a mix of abstract and concrete elements of speech. Metaphors, hyperbole, vivid descriptions, and personification are among several tools of imaginative writing.

Simplicity — Good writing always expresses more than it impresses. The big words, inverted sentences, and Gerunds often add to style, but steal away from simplicity and consequently clarity.

I am excited to have you on board, my fellow writers. We will discuss techniques of writing that will take your writing to the next level. We shall, my fellas, now write with the passion of an architect, knowing intimately every tool we employ, and we shall put together many edifices for the delight of our readers. Write on!

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