William Zinsser taught writing at Yale, then wrote the book that has fixed more bad writing than every English class combined.
Here are 10 cuts from "On Writing Well" that instantly make your writing twice as strong.
1) Delete every word doing no work
This is "Get My Shit Off," an unreleased Jay-Z track produced by Timbaland, recorded around the time of "Blueprint 2."
No idea how this didn't make the album but it went Kazaa platinum
The one where Em got DOGWALKED on his own 💩
This is STILL the WORST lyrical beatdown Em ever took from a rhyme partner. Not Jay. Not Royce, Banks, Kiss, X OR Busta. THIS MF.
If anybody calls you a “ nerd “ they’re disrespecting you. They are calling you less than and weird. Nerd was never a term of endearment it’s a word bullies used to call intelligent or eccentric people weird.
This is not conservatism. It’s gutter theatrics.
The Republican Party once produced people who could argue constitutional limits, markets, federalism, and foreign policy without sounding like a comment section at 2 a.m.
Now we have a sitting member of Congress recycling internet incest rumors like it’s statecraft.
The “married her brother” smear has been investigated, litigated in the press, and endlessly debunked. Repeating it doesn’t make it true. It makes you unserious.
If your political philosophy collapses into ancestry taunts and playground insinuations, you’re not defending Western civilization — you’re vandalizing it.
Disagree with Ilhan Omar on policy? Fine. That’s politics.
But if your sharpest weapon is xenophobic gossip, you’ve already admitted you can’t win on ideas.
This isn’t strength.
It’s decay wearing a flag pin.
Israel & Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. to attack Iran.
Netanyahu killed 72,000 people in Gaza, mostly women & children.
Saudi Arabia is a brutal dictatorship that allows no opposition.
These are the leaders who want to bring “freedom” to Iran?
Does anyone really believe that?