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From what I understand writing a story to be read is not the same comparison to writing a story for information sharing via the internet. It's all about your au
by avelis 13y ago
From what I understand writing a story to be read is not the same comparison to writing a story for information sharing via the internet. It's all about your audience. The audience who picks up a book wants to sit and read. Sometimes at length.
tl;dr Writing blog posts and writing stories are comparing apples to oranges.
- bgnm2000 13y agoCouldn't agree more - I hope its obvious my post is regarding content such as blogs, articles, and web content (based on myself as the author). Not stories.
- bargl 13y agoMaybe you should have said that. :-)
- yannyu 13y agoNot the case at all. Writing blog posts, writing stories, writing emails, all share the same principle: use only the words necessary to convey the message. Just because story-writing has a lot more description does not mean that those words aren't necessary. For example, for Hamlet to simply say "I am conflicted about my current situation and am contemplating suicide", does not nearly give the same nuance or insight into what his thought process is as "To be, or not to be, that is the question:/Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer/The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,/Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep". tl;dr the goal of most forms of writing is to convey a message with just the right amount of words
- dllthomas 13y agoWhile your point is reasonable, particularly to modern style, I think your Hamlet example is far more "Show, don't tell" than any useful demonstration of preference for brevity.