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December 3, 2012

10 Tips on Writing from David Ogilvy

Filed under: Writing — Patrick Durusau @ 7:13 pm

10 Tips on Writing from David Ogilvy by Maria Popova.

From the post:

How is your new year’s resolution to read more and write better holding up? After tracing the fascinating story of the most influential writing style guide of all time and absorbing advice on writing from some of modern history’s most legendary writers, here comes some priceless and pricelessly uncompromising wisdom from a very different kind of cultural legend: iconic businessman and original “Mad Man” David Ogilvy. On September 7th, 1982, Ogilvy sent the following internal memo to all agency employees, titled “How to Write”:

The one where I fail is: Never write more than two pages on any subject.

And could use the storing emails overnight and re-editing the next day.

Which ones would benefit you the most?

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