This Writing Life

There are easy problems and there are hard problems. Examples of the former include building a space elevator, putting a man on the moon, and curing cancer. They are reducible to steps that make sense within our theoretical conception of how the world works. They are difficult but there is no reason, yet, to consider [...]

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.