What oft was thought but ne’er so well expressed
(Alexander Pope)
Only Connect
(E.M. Forster)
To write fiction well is to communicate precisely what you intend to a number of people (the more, the better in the context of the modern market) in a dramatically satisfying way, without your style and language failing to support your endeavour, and without either being too blown up with those well known failings – ‘aren‘t I clever-ism‘ or static ‘purple prose’ to achieve the aim.
