Ernest Hemingway famously said, ‘All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.’ For George Orwell, ‘Good prose should be transparent, like a window-pane.’ In this special guest post, Justin Osborne offers some top tips for writers drawn from the wisdom of […]
Tag: Journalism
‘The Smallness of the World’: Dickens, Reynolds and Mayhew on Wellington Street
In this special guest blog post, Dr Mary Shannon writes about the remarkable London street where a number of noted Victorian journalists worked Last week, I turned a street corner near Oxford Circus and bumped into a friend from university who I had not seen in a good while. We […]