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DougBTX on Oct 31, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stephen King tells everything you need to know abo...

Did you think this article was about directness? He spent the first half telling a story about his first writing gig. I don't think his point was anything like, "don't tell stories."

kranner on Oct 31, 2010 [–]

> 4. Remove every extraneous word

I singled out directness because that is what most of the rest of this HN thread seems to talk about.

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