Find One True Sentence And Put It Down On Paper – or Blog!

“All you have to do is write one true sentence.”  Earnest Hemingway

I was searching for writing tips years ago and found this tip from Hemingway. To write on true sentence, whether it is your idea or from someone else, is the key to good writing. He goes on to say that cutting off the fat and ornamentation aid in crystalizing a sentence into it’s purest form and making it have the most impact. After all, people can’t remember long passages, but everyone can quote a short simple yet true sentence. 

I go to libraries, book stores and have been to book fairs, and there is one truth that holds since the advent of the printing press, writing a book is not a novel idea. 

Words can move people. There are a lot of words out there to be read, and in our instant world of youtube and tv, video is taking over and the discussion is getting simplified to the point of sound bites and short quips. 

The truth is: Life is not that simple. Life is complicated, not because of it’s own nature, but because there are so many lives intertwined together in one society, even one household. 

It is the nature of man to complicate things. Governments write more laws, make more rules, enforce new tax forms, cuts, exemptions and so on. Man is an “if, and and but” creature. Nothing can just stay where it is. Man must modity.

Keeping life as simple and direct as possible is a difficult task, especially when the factors surrounding you are so contridictory. 

More than anything, life is about choice and it is about keeping it as simple as possible which means simply saying no to some things, and there are a lot of nice things out there. 

The simple life begins with a simple sentence: What sentence is it for me or for you?