/lit/ - Literature

I've just realised that this asshole has been a monkey on my back for years. I think I must have read his advice on writing at an impressionable age, and never examined it too closely. Now that I've actually read a book of his as an adult, I can see that his style of simple sentences wasn't simple at all.

> I waded out. The water was cold.
A normal human would say:
> I waded out into the cold water.
and that is more or less how the thought would occur to anyone who wasn't so fixated on writing the most primitive sentences possible.

Hemingway is absolute ass as a literary model for anyone who didn't grow up reading Victorian verbosity. There's an entire cult built up around the avoidance of purple prose, with this guy as the main influence behind it, but really, this is what it boils down to: bad writers putting themselves on a leash and making sure that they don't write too much. I'm annoyed that I was ever naive enough to take these tongue-biters seriously.

Thoughts on Hemingway?
Is his writing worthwhile?

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'The first draft of anything is shit'

t. Ernest Hemingway