Tools for Revising and Editing

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration,
and the Baroque is over.

              -- Ernest Hemingway

Four Prose Principles

Rhythm
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
                                      -- Horace

Balance
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
                                      -- John F. Kennedy

Simplicity
In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more.
                                     -- Ernest Hemingway

Wit and humor
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
                                     -- Dorothy Parker