‘Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.’
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, proposition 4.116
The Oxford dictionary defines clarity as:
The quality of beingclear, in particular:
The quality of beingcoherentandintelligible
The quality of beingeasytoseeorhear;sharpnessof image or sound
In fiction writing, as in any other type of writing, you need to be clear – your words, your sentences, the pictures you build, must have clarity. Otherwise, who are you writing for? As an author, you have stories you want to share, so you must bear in mind your audience, your reader and what they will do with the words you choose to give them. This doesn’t mean you can’t be clever, that you can’t be creative, that you can’t build wonderful metaphors, use fabulous imagery and…
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