I'm not dead yet...
…but I’ve been a bad blog host. Projects and real life have had a way of pulling me away from this blog recently, and for the few of you who do read Writing, Clear and Simple, I apologize. I do have a couple of posts in the works, and I need to reply to J’s last comment on the use and misuse of crisis (but that’s going to turn into a bit of a dissertation on prescriptivism vs. descriptivism, so that might take a bit).
I was going to point you all to an interesting article that Seth Godin linked to: In “The Secret of Writing to be Read”, Godin linked to something that author Steven Johnson wrote, and said that “short, simple sentences not only sell more books, but spread ideas farther and faster.”
Now I agree with that idea, that short, simple sentences are a good thing. However, when you read Johnson’s piece—which describes some interesting analysis that Johnson did—that conclusion isn’t explicitly stated. Still, both Godin’s bit (and it really is a bit) and Johnson’s longer post are worth checking out.
Anyway, all this to say, I’m back, and plan on resuming our regularly scheduled irregular blogging. Thanks for sticking around!
Roy Jacobsen
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