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.
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idunnololz@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoI 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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HazyHerbivore@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Building up imaginary in fiction isn’t the opposite of being concise
idunnololz@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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
idunnololz@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Of course being verbose doesnt mean your writing is good. It’s just that you need to deliberately choose when to be more verbose and when to give no description at all. It’s all about the experience you want to craft. If you write about home mundane a character’s life is, you can write out their day in detail and give your readers the experience of having such a life, that is if that was your goal. It all depends on the experience you want to craft and the story you want to tell.
k0e3@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
concisely
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Precisely.