Ah, the beauty of verbosity lies in remembering to smell the roses along your travels. What good is it to forgo the meandering path, playing in the sun’s warmth with your prose along the road less traveled? Take the time to water your garden of verbiage, and revel in the beauty as it begins to bear fruit! Merely dipping your toes into the sea of writing may feel cold and fleeting, but you’ll be surprised how much that can change when you decide to take the leap—to swim heatedly amongst the current.
I could’ve also said “writing is fun when you spend more time with it,” but that doesn’t feel the same, does it? We don’t have to constrain ourselves to the gray doldrums of a grocery list when we use our voices in writing. We can choose to spread our wings; we can choose to have fun, to make art.
It depends on how much you’re expressing with it. There’s a difference between being concise and not having anything to say. I think the former is a great virtue. Whittling your text down to the minimum which can still convey what you want forces you to really understand the content. Of course, if you want to add emotional depth you’ll still need more words than you would for raw information.
Yeah, that’s very true. Writing should be structured, concise, and flow well, as opposed to being a disjointed mess of empty paragraphs. It’s not that more words is inherently better, but more of a reminder that writing can be a fun and creative activity, and you can impart that joy onto others too. I actually left a pretty big hole in my reply for the sake of humor, which is the overarching context of the meme being a school assignment. You addressed it thoughtfully, but I was waiting for a silly response along the lines of:
Sir, this is a 6th grade essay about George Washington.
Arbitrarily shoving words where they don’t belong, into a premise you aren’t interested in writing about, isn’t ever going to be a fun time. If anything, it might put folks off of writing in the same way that dry school book assignments can for reading. When you spend more time with writing though, something you’re generally interesting in talking about, more words tend to come out—and that’s usually a good thing! Concise is not inherently minimalist, nor is it required to be devoid of emotion. Find your voice, let the words flow, and you’ll likely end up painting a more complete picture of what you want to convey.
Oh I completely agree and saw what you were doing. Just not something I could do. Could never fill a page limit without doing analysis or something else. Always awe-d me tbh.
I guess language isn’t my art maybe and that’s fine.
Ah, the beauty of verbosity lies in remembering to smell the roses along your travels. What good is it to forgo the meandering path, playing in the sun’s warmth with your prose along the road less traveled? Take the time to water your garden of verbiage, and revel in the beauty as it begins to bear fruit! Merely dipping your toes into the sea of writing may feel cold and fleeting, but you’ll be surprised how much that can change when you decide to take the leap—to swim heatedly amongst the current.
I could’ve also said “writing is fun when you spend more time with it,” but that doesn’t feel the same, does it? We don’t have to constrain ourselves to the gray doldrums of a grocery list when we use our voices in writing. We can choose to spread our wings; we can choose to have fun, to make art.
It depends on how much you’re expressing with it. There’s a difference between being concise and not having anything to say. I think the former is a great virtue. Whittling your text down to the minimum which can still convey what you want forces you to really understand the content. Of course, if you want to add emotional depth you’ll still need more words than you would for raw information.
Yeah, that’s very true. Writing should be structured, concise, and flow well, as opposed to being a disjointed mess of empty paragraphs. It’s not that more words is inherently better, but more of a reminder that writing can be a fun and creative activity, and you can impart that joy onto others too. I actually left a pretty big hole in my reply for the sake of humor, which is the overarching context of the meme being a school assignment. You addressed it thoughtfully, but I was waiting for a silly response along the lines of:
Arbitrarily shoving words where they don’t belong, into a premise you aren’t interested in writing about, isn’t ever going to be a fun time. If anything, it might put folks off of writing in the same way that dry school book assignments can for reading. When you spend more time with writing though, something you’re generally interesting in talking about, more words tend to come out—and that’s usually a good thing! Concise is not inherently minimalist, nor is it required to be devoid of emotion. Find your voice, let the words flow, and you’ll likely end up painting a more complete picture of what you want to convey.
Oh I completely agree and saw what you were doing. Just not something I could do. Could never fill a page limit without doing analysis or something else. Always awe-d me tbh. I guess language isn’t my art maybe and that’s fine.
There’s many ways to express yourself, so if writing doesn’t cut it for you, I’m sure there’s something out there that does!