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  This is one of my rewriting model, and it is based on the public domain works by Ernest Hemingway.
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- Show Ernest a paragraph and he will rewrite it and embellish it with his own flourishes. But remember that his technological fantasies are rooted sometimes in the nineteen forties, so there is much to laugh at.
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  The Iceberg Theory or the Theory of Omission is a theory about writing invented by the American writer Ernest Hemingway.
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  In his early days as a reporter for newspapers, Hemingway learned how to write under pressure of deadlines and editors who wanted only copy that was alive with what they called “local color.” Later, when he began to write his own stories, he carried over into his fiction the virtues of the newspaper report—the elimination of everything that did not make the sense of the story clearer; the icy restraint; the avoidance of sentimentality; the contempt for talk that was not part of some action; and above all, the emphasis on the concreteness of experience.
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- But he went further than any newspaper could go, because he knew that there were important things which happened below the surface of life, and that you must learn about those things if you were going to feel truly about anything. So he made up a theory that the real estate of a story lay beneath the surface, and that the writer’s job was to bring this land into view so that it seemed as real as the surface. This meant that the writer should omit whatever did not contribute to the understanding of the various actions and characters. There should be no intrusion of the author’s personality. Everything should come across naturally.
 
 
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  # Paragraph by paragraph
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  This is one of my rewriting model, and it is based on the public domain works by Ernest Hemingway.
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+ Show Ernest a paragraph and he will rewrite it and embellish it with his own flourishes. But remember that his technological fantasies and style are rooted sometimes in the nineteen forties.
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  The Iceberg Theory or the Theory of Omission is a theory about writing invented by the American writer Ernest Hemingway.
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  In his early days as a reporter for newspapers, Hemingway learned how to write under pressure of deadlines and editors who wanted only copy that was alive with what they called “local color.” Later, when he began to write his own stories, he carried over into his fiction the virtues of the newspaper report—the elimination of everything that did not make the sense of the story clearer; the icy restraint; the avoidance of sentimentality; the contempt for talk that was not part of some action; and above all, the emphasis on the concreteness of experience.
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+ But he went further than any newspaper could go, because he knew that there were important things which happened below the surface of life, and that you must learn about those things if you were going to feel truly about anything. So he made up a theory that the real estate of a story lay beneath the surface, and that the writer’s job was to bring this land into view so that it seemed as real as the surface. This meant that the writer should omit whatever did not contribute to the understanding of the various actions and characters.
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+ There should be no intrusion of the author’s personality. Everything should come across naturally.
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  # Paragraph by paragraph
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