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Index
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Introduction: When Words Are Worth a Thousand Pictures
I: How to Write Short
1: Collect short writing.
2: Study short writing wherever it finds you.
3: Read for focus.
4: Practice reading at a glance.
5: Follow the work of short writers.
6: Write in the margins.
7: Embrace the lyric.
8: No dumping.
9: Tap the power of two.
10: Learn to balance.
11: Give weight to one side.
12: Change your pace.
13: Hit your target.
14: Count to three.
15: Inject the juice of parallels.
16: Tweak the predictable.
17: Vary hard and soft words.
18: Join the six-word discipline.
19: Cut it short.
20: Add by contraction.
21: Excerpt—but in context.
22: Surprise with brevity.
II: How to Write Short with a Purpose
23: Enshrine.
24: Crack wise.
25: Sound wise.
26: Sell.
27: Entice.
28: Surprise with content.
29: Reframe messages as dialogue.
30: Marry words with pictures.
31: Summarize and define.
32: List.
33: Report and narrate.
34: Title.
35: Protect against the misuses of short writing.
A Few Final Words—441 to Be Exact
Permissions and Credits
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Roy Peter Clark
In Praise of Roy Peter Clark’s "How to Write Short"
Newsletters
Table of Contents
Copyright
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