G1N&T
Andrew LokenauthA masterclass in writing:
LAUREN
Heliograph
PetraPandaSo good...
WJ Strunk's 'The Elements of Style' (1918 [sic]), contains a section that adds to this: "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not
that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."
ÐДѷє ۷ǿȵ ຣ@PetraPanda @FluentInFinance I’ve used this technique for my blogs. I found it very hard to write 1) out my ideas and 2) in a comprehensible form at the same time. I frequently found myself obsessed at times about the form instead of the message.
I now just dump my ideas in a word salad and then start refining “how can I say this simpler” and “do u really need to say this to make my point” a couple of times.
Typically after 3 or 4 refinements I have something I do no longer feel ashamed about to put out in the world
Edit: typos and stupid autocorrect
writing is a stern mistress...
ChrisR@Dave_von_S @PetraPanda @FluentInFinance Years ago I used to use mind maps for this. There was some great software that made it much easier. Dump all the ideas in a map, push and pull them around, change the hierarchy, and now you've got a structure that might just work!
sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞
⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe@FluentInFinance it's a short book, and every word in it is gold.
dogtrax
arclight@FluentInFinance Richard Lanham's "Revising Prose" is a gem. It taught me to vary sentence length and to read aloud, listening for meter and unfortunate alliteration. Most importantly it helped me overcome 'engineer disease' - burying the dominant point under a suffocating layer of caveats, cautions, and limitations. It's horrible advice for modern academic writing and journalism, demanding a clear active voice. It should be better known than it is.
Aoi_X_Kaizaki@FluentInFinance A lilt. that is a word I haven't heard before. I'll grab the dictionary.
Wait, why brag a book if I have a computer? - Forget computers.
John Robinson
Vive Levant@FluentInFinance which dramatically lacks an alt, which is ironically sad as far as the image is just text.