Writing well is simple, but simplicity is difficult. There’s help. This Orwell piece is perhaps the best thing ever written about writing. It’s as valid today as it was in 1946. Read it; it’s better than 6 writing courses at the New School. (I speak from experience)

If you don’t have time, these are the main points. Read them over and over, until they are irrevocably lodged in your psyche. Love them, live them, obey them.

Never us a long word where a short one will do.

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

Never use the passive where you can use the active.

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

Fuck yeah!