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A simple question of excess verbiage
Aug. 22nd, 2010 09:52 pmOne of the things I scheduled into my vacation, and finally got these past few days, is more-than-adequate time for recovery. I generally use these for restful activities -- finishing a book, updating my resume, penning errant blog posts, that sort of thing. In this case, it was playing through the first two Metroids Prime while the back of my mind worked out stray ideas.
It thus comes as no surprise that I might say, "I improved my writing style while blasting Ing in Dark Aether." It's precisely what happened.
Because, my mind is strange like that. Where creativity is concerned, it needs a single activity to focus on, nearly exclusively, while my right brain goes to town figuring the rest out.
With this, I went back and read through my old posts. They all have the best intentions; what's there is good. But they're missing something -- that flow and style that says, "Hey, this is interesting!"
For me, this is a simple question of excess verbiage. I tend to focus singularly on the same point, talking at length and quite clearly obsessing over it, instead of actually saying what I'd like to. It's far more healthy for me to hit on a topic, get what I want said, and move on.
To coin a phrase, I have prose envy. I keep trying to restate the same thing until it sounds right, instead of getting my facts straight and moving on. It's a subtrope of excess justification, and a close friend of baseless rationalization.
With this in mind, I'm going to try to hit the high points that I think y'all will find interesting. Just journaling about work, my life, or progress in degunking my mind isn't going to cut it when there's more interesting stuff to talk about.
We'll see how that goes. I have far too many writing topics, scraps, and actual buffer (!) to not be interesting with it. :p
It thus comes as no surprise that I might say, "I improved my writing style while blasting Ing in Dark Aether." It's precisely what happened.
Because, my mind is strange like that. Where creativity is concerned, it needs a single activity to focus on, nearly exclusively, while my right brain goes to town figuring the rest out.
With this, I went back and read through my old posts. They all have the best intentions; what's there is good. But they're missing something -- that flow and style that says, "Hey, this is interesting!"
For me, this is a simple question of excess verbiage. I tend to focus singularly on the same point, talking at length and quite clearly obsessing over it, instead of actually saying what I'd like to. It's far more healthy for me to hit on a topic, get what I want said, and move on.
To coin a phrase, I have prose envy. I keep trying to restate the same thing until it sounds right, instead of getting my facts straight and moving on. It's a subtrope of excess justification, and a close friend of baseless rationalization.
With this in mind, I'm going to try to hit the high points that I think y'all will find interesting. Just journaling about work, my life, or progress in degunking my mind isn't going to cut it when there's more interesting stuff to talk about.
We'll see how that goes. I have far too many writing topics, scraps, and actual buffer (!) to not be interesting with it. :p
