The First Cut ...

January 28, 2024

Avoid needless

complexity

Say it

straight out

Frost and

then Hemingway

Set the rules

down

Between meaning

and verbiage

The idea

is king

Sharpen

the point

The message

— the thing

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: January, 2024)

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