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STORYTELLING: Rules to Write By Courtesy of George Orwell
1. STORYTELLING:
Rules to Write By
Courtesy of George Orwell
6 Rules | 16 Slides
SOURCE: Politics and the English Language
2. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other
figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Orwell Rule No. 1
3. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
Orwell Rule No. 2
4. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
Orwell Rule No. 3
5. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
Orwell Rule No. 4
6. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a
jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
Orwell Rule No. 5
7. Break any of these rules sooner than say
anything outright barbarous.
Orwell Rule No. 6
8. For me, these six rules are
more like the points of a
communications compass
that provide direction and
guidance for breaking
through content clutter
and noise.
9. To explain what I mean, consider the following
statements George Orwell includes in his essay,
Politics and the English Language.
12. Objective considerations of contemporary
phenomena compel the conclusion that success or
failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency
to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a
considerable element of the unpredictable must
invariably be taken into account.
13. I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to
the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread
to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor
yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance
happeneth to them all.
— Ecclesiastes