Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
The World Motivation
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
“You never would get through to the end of being a father, no matter where you stored your mind or how many steps in the series you followed. Not even if you died. Alive or dead a thousand miles distant, you were always going to be on the hook for work that was neither a procedure nor a series of steps but, rather, something that demanded your full, constant attention without necessarily calling you to do, perform, or say anything at all.”