I am wordy!
Yes, I admit. Positively using
too many words to tell just one little, simple, probably lame, ludicrous thing; pay attention though,
I want to write, but it happens
such that sometimes (well, honestly, most of the time) I have particularly
nothing catchy to pen down. So I just pick my keyboard and start punching.
Often I delete a whole paragraph, sometimes the whole page and start again.
Other times (I have particularly found this one very effective) I just let my
thoughts flow. I write no outline, I don’t restrict my imagination, I don’t
really subscribe to any particular style, and if I jump arbitrarily from one
thought to another I don’t freak out.
I try to make sense though,
probably trigger some odd thought and in the process keep you interested or better
still, make what to the simplistic mind would be a preposterous touché but to the
liberal, erudite mind, highbrow fodder.
That means I in no way intend to
be brief or what the conventional observer would term, ‘clear & concise’
but rather put it down as it unfolds and hope that I will align the spontaneity
of my thoughts with the extemporaneity of your zealous mind.
I can’t say that I always resist
the urge to conform myself to the rules of keeping it short and simple. Contrary
to popular belief, it is quite easy to restrict yourself to a single idea and
creatively flesh it out and buoyantly exhaust it. But that is at the expense of
the beauty of wholesomeness, the patching up of different aspects (products of
imagination) of reality into some awesome cocktail that the mind fervently
feasts on.
Brevity is so limiting and sour,
at its best it’s a sham. Synonymous to serving a five course meal, each course
a day later! Or never! It’s on the egis of conformity to space limitations and
perceived readers' concentration span that time-starved writers ride on to
inadvertently mutilate wonderful life experiences and exceptional propositions.
The consequence therefore, is half-told stories, intellectually malnourished audience and
unimpressive repositories.
On the other hand of the
long-winded few, the possibilities are infinite. You take charge of what your
audience will know, have to know and need to know. In the process you create a
new ‘want to know’ package that able-enough readers will adopt rather than
concentrating on perceived audience information wants which most writers do and christen
‘relevance’ or the unfortunate ‘gate-keeping’ concept that the traditional
writer still is deluded with.
When we think, we never draw an
outline for the path that our thoughts take. We can choose what to think about,
but there’s an auto-generated, albeit intermittent sequence in the brain that guides the stream of
thoughts. It’s a supercomputer, the human brain, capable of handling
simultaneous thoughts and sends the processed ones for our utilization. This unrehearsed and impulsive nature of our
thought processes can be married into writing so as to fit naturally with the
readers' expectations which now will be analogous to the writer's.
So anyway all I wanted to say is;
I get verbose for a reason and it’s awesome!
Crucify me now, down here
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