Want to brush up on your writing? Writing a lot, by starting a blog or keeping a journal can certainly help but Kurt Vonnegut believes that good writing comes from good ideas and saying exactly what you mean.
How to Write With Style by Kurt Vonnegut [via Jason Santa Maria]
Newspaper reporters and technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to readers. We call these revelations, accidental and intentional, elements of style.
