I write concise until i started giving fiction writing a try. Suddenly writing concise was a negative :x (not always obviously but a lot of times I found that I wrote too concise).
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Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 days agoEither to take a very long time to get to the point, or to go off on a tangent.
Writing concisely is a lost art, it seems.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 4 days ago
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 days ago
IDK that kinda depends on the writer and their style. Concise is usually a safe bet for easy reading, but doesn’t leave room for a lot of fancy details. When I think verbose vs concise I think about Frank Herbert and Kurt Vonnegut for reference.
HazyHerbivore@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Building up imaginary in fiction isn’t the opposite of being concise
idunnololz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s not. I just wrote the comment because it was relevant to recent events for me.
I started practicing writing non-fiction recently as a hobby. While writing non-fiction, I noticed that a lot of times I specifically did not want to write concisely. Sometimes I did want to write concisely, other times I did not. When I was reading my writing back, I realized how deliberate you had to be about how much or how little detail you gave. It felt like a lot of rules of English went out the window. 100% grammatical correctness was not necessary if it meant better flow or pacing. Unnecessary details and repetition became tools instead of taboo.
It really highlighted the contrast between fiction and non-fiction writing. It was an eye opening experience.
TheFonz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’d be careful with this one. Being verbose in non-fiction does not produce good writing automatically. In my opinion the best writers in the world have an economy of words but are still eloquent and rich in their expression
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago