korrents

Our readingWhat is a korrent?

Let the meaning choose the word, not the other way about: the worst thing a writer can do is surrender to words.

Drawn from what George Orwell said

writing
What this subject means

writing Prose as thinking: writing well, writing by hand while a model offers to do it, and who will still be able to.

Why does writing matter, now that a model can write for you?under our view: Good writing is plain and sincere, and is cut down to what the meaning needs

What George Orwell actually said

  1. George Orwell English essayist, journalist and novelist (1903 to 1950)
    What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way about. In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is to surrender to them.

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