Advice from the Peace Corps

When Ernest Hemminway started as a young reporter for the Kansas City Star, he was given a style sheet with four basic rules:
	•		Use short sentences.
	•		Use short first paragraphs.
	•		Use vigorous English.
	•		Be positive, never negative
Asked about these rules years later, he said, “Those were the best rules I ever learned in the business of writing. I’ve never forgotten them. No one with any talent, who feels and writes truly about the things he is trying to say, can fail to write well if he abides by them.”