How to be more concise?

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One of the most famous saying is "brevity is the soul of wit". That saying comes from Shakespeare specifically the beloved play hamlet, Said by Polonius the pompous lord chamberlain who was ironically long winded. Though used ironically it is a very ture statement just given by a poor messenger. I often find my self looking at a post I wrote up and realizing how much longer they are then other post. I believe it comes down to the essay style writing I was taught in school. I've always found it good practice to state examples and over explain them. On the internet its very easy to be misconstrued so while it can be pretentious its not a bad idea to explain your thoughts in full. In a paper or blog that might be very well but in a coversational setting it comes of as just being redundant at best and at worst very rambley. Being a rambler is something one only realizes thr folly of when on the other side of. It's great fun to explain something you're passionate about but once you're stuck on the receiving end of it it becomes clear just how inconsiderate and annoying you where. It comes back like a boomerang of shame once you realize how much they probably wanted you to wrap up your 40 minute monolog on the themes of neon genesis evangelion. It's a pain one should take to heart, but beware not become to self conscious about or might become to dull or worse overly apologetic. If there's one thing worse then someone going on and on about something it's someone stopping in the middle and apologizing over and over. If someone's waiting my time I want at least some closure. Only thing worse is a non firing chekhovs gun, it's just copout writing from a dipshit who can't plan ahead.
Anyway on being concise, I just get to attached to some sentences and can't bring my self to edit them. Sometimes to keep a sentences I like I will re write everything around it and it just ends up sloppy. It a kind of writing almost masterbator. Caring much more about your wording then the actual conversation you're having with the people around you. One should take pride in there writing no matter the setting, even bathroom stall writings can speak to the right man shiting his brains out because he took a risk on the nachos at the Mexican restaurant with the 2 star reviews. You also become prone to many typos, if you go on and on you bound to fuck something up but you just wrote a bunch of bullshit no way your going back and proof reading it all, especially when its for a dumb gag you don't expect any one to actually read.
Anyway what would you advise my niggers.
 
Practice typing on monkeytype.com so that you stop making so many typos in the first place, and also so that going back and fixing things doesn't feel like as much of a chore (I assume your problem with proofreading is that part, since you said you get attached to sentences you wrote, which would imply that the act of re-reading what you wrote isn't the hard part).
 
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