Gifted writers make each sentence propel readers to the next.
Another strategy is to just finish before readers have time to quit.
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Experiments in getting to the point.13 Comments »
Rebby wrote @ April 23, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Brevity with value is also difficult if you’re not a genius.
Megan wrote @ April 23, 2008 at 4:48 pm
That’s hilarious. I find photos help in this also.
94stranger wrote @ April 23, 2008 at 5:04 pm
How brief brevity?
for Basho and friends, limit
sev’nteen syllables
innerarchitect wrote @ April 23, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Abraham,
“Gifted writers make each sentence propel readers to the next.”
As Kurt Vonnegut loves to say in his “8 Basics of Creative Writing” KV “Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.”
Author Susan Hanshaw’s upcoming book “Inner Architect: How To Build The Life You Were Designed To Live” is a template for propelling readers from one step to the next–http://innerarchitect.com
As I like to say “Gifted readers know when they are reading a gifted writers prose.” Job well done!
dean
94stranger wrote @ April 23, 2008 at 5:09 pm
twenty-two words sounds
extravagent; enough rope
to hang yourself with
TimW wrote @ April 23, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Abraham… at 46 yrs and perhaps only truly converted for 2, I find myself with a very few godly men to be discipled by. Your dad is one. How important is it that I count my words in telling of God’s goodness and how do I effectively and responsibly use my words?
Your brothers ‘Luke18.25′…wow.
carissa wrote @ April 24, 2008 at 12:26 am
as someone who has to constantly edit herself, i’ve developed an eye for what isn’t good writing, and what good writing isn’t. still, no amount of editing can make words jump off a page. sigh.
TulipGirl wrote @ April 27, 2008 at 8:00 pm
I’m SO not succinct. Communicating online has only made it worse.
Patrick Sullivan Jr. wrote @ April 28, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Brilliant dude.
Nancy Scott wrote @ April 30, 2008 at 11:29 am
We live in a texting age, and I for one, think it is marvelous. While young minds in my day spent their first few months in school intently trying to decipher the words of the latest adventure of Dick, Jane and Spot, today’s kindergarten crowd is “connected” and probably has been playing computer and text games since the tender age of two. (Way to go Sesame Street!)
Communication is the name of the game and getting the point and moving on is the mode of operation. If a picture is worth a thousand words, it seems that the video age should have swallowed up the printed word in what, less than a generation? But OMG, text is flying in and out of our lives at a break-neck speed leaving half the letters behind. Are we heading backward into an age of cuneiforms? Is all this text leading us into a “super-age” of literacy, or leaving half or even more of the population totally illiterate? And, OMG, who are the illiterate, those who never really learned to spell, or those who never learned to read between the lines?
94stranger wrote @ April 30, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Interesting Nancy - and, judging by wjhat you write, the other matter is:
Are questions set to replace answers?
Nancy Scott wrote @ May 1, 2008 at 10:17 am
“Interesting Nancy - and, judging by wjhat you write, the other matter is:
Are questions set to replace answers?”
As in “postmodernism”; NO *: )
Nancy Scott wrote @ May 1, 2008 at 10:23 am
?Sometimes we make more out of a question than we ought and sometimes, not enough ?
*: )
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