One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up…

Stephen King
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One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed. ✨ Stephen King (2002). On Writing, p.110, Simon and Schuster
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