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Re: I seem incapable of brevity. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #7963315 - 02/01/08 02:56 AM (16 years, 1 day ago)

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I seem incapable of brevity.




Not me.


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Re: I seem incapable of brevity. [Re: Anno]
    #7963405 - 02/01/08 04:38 AM (16 years, 22 hours ago)

Lengthy prose is the course of the young soul.


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Re: I seem incapable of brevity. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #7963505 - 02/01/08 05:48 AM (16 years, 21 hours ago)

its easy to mistake the shroomery for your magnum opus

its nice to rhapsodise

one shouldn't necessarily aspire to concise narrative, call that a project if its something you want to explore

shroomery and e mail are no place for such intent though, i tend to overegg the pudding here and there too but fuck it, mostly i'll just try to pull it off as irreverent

has anyone heard of yukio mishima and his novel The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea? japanese writers... its like they can't help themselves. the haiku vibe... their culture seems to recommend writing of that nature - brevity/conciseness/poise

one day i'll follow that school, but probably not right now. there is too much i want to verbalise


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Re: I seem incapable of brevity. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #7963654 - 02/01/08 06:50 AM (16 years, 20 hours ago)

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OneLessForeskin said:
I notice a lot of the time I'll be e-mailing back and forth with people and they'll take two or three sentences to say what they need to say effectively. I can't tell if my responses grow into paragraphs because I'm unable to concisely deliver the information/thoughts/ideas I want to convey, or if it's because I just have that much to say. It seems like everything I say bleeds into some other idea, and all my writing is full of asides, extra information bookended by dashes, and parenthetical detours.  Oh well. I'm not complaining, but sometimes I sit back and read Hemingway and wonder if I'll ever be able to edit my own writing down to such absolutely effective brevity.




This post should have read, "I think I talk too much."

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By making his world a little colder.

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Re: I seem incapable of brevity. [Re: Madtowntripper]
    #7963688 - 02/01/08 07:11 AM (16 years, 19 hours ago)

The fewer words used to make a point, the more powerful, IMO. Every unnecessary word weakens the prose.

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Madtowntripper said:
"The softly shining pale yellow sun sank slowly beneath the flat horizon, its shimmering rays reaching greedily out over the their steadily shrinking domain."




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Re: I seem incapable of brevity. [Re: Anno]
    #7963709 - 02/01/08 07:29 AM (16 years, 19 hours ago)

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Anno said:
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I seem incapable of brevity.




Not me.




:lol:  :handth:


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