{"id":3253,"date":"2010-10-07T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2010-09-30T10:47:44","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T08:47:44","slug":"la-sencillez-de-orwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/2010\/10\/07\/la-sencillez-de-orwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplicity and Orwell"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>What Orwell<\/a> applied to politics we can apply to fiction:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Never use a metaphor<\/a>, simile<\/a>, or other figure of speech<\/a> which you are used to seeing in print.<\/li>\n
  2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.<\/li>\n
  3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.<\/li>\n
  4. Never use the passive<\/a> where you can use the active.<\/li>\n
  5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon<\/a> word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.<\/li>\n
  6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Politics and the English Language<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

    <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    What Orwell applied to politics we can apply to fiction: Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. Never use the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-3253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taller-literario","tag-consejo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t