Some writers want to use the most straightforward English in their work. So doing, a burden is lifted from the reader. Other writers struggle to create quite individual sentences that are fresh and unusual, but at the expense of ease.
The human being is a peculiar creature. While all of its senses, and almost all of its capacities, are matched and exceeded by countless other animals, something strange and unimitated lies between the ears of Homo sapiens sapiens. I speak of nothing less than the mind.
Via Daring Fireball, a collection of letters from the late filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. Cracking stuff.
Readers of this blog will be all to familiar with my own attempts at flash fiction, which I try to keep as ‘flash’ (i.e. short) as possible. Fiona Robyn, however, goes one better. She goes for the ‘f’ of the ‘flash’ like Linford Christie used to go for the ‘b’ of the ‘bang’.