"Cut out all the exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."
"Never use an unfamiliar word, except to express a delicate shade, where in effect you have recreated it. This is a damn good prose rule I think."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Spoken like a man defending the syntax of the spectacle.
Language isn’t a parlor trick—it’s a weapon. Keep your exclamations! Invent new words! Confuse the reader! Make the page scream!
A growing garden of thoughts