yasaiitame:

Nik’s rendering of George Orwell’s famous rules for writers, from Politics and the English Language. These aren’t Orwell’s exact rules. For instance, he says never to use technical, foreign or jargon (which need not be technical) phrases, if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Obviously there will be times when you can’t. Similarly, he says to never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech, which you are used to seeing in print.

They are certainly in the spirit of Orwell, though. Take note, obscurist writers. You’re not impressing anyone.

I was googling trying to find this image, and the result had it here on Yasaiitame’s Tumblr, so I thought it’d be nice to reblog.  I think a younger me would have taken the hump at someone putting rules to writing, if it hadn’t been for the sixth one.

Then again, a younger me would probably have asked, “who’s George Orwell?”