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How To Apply The Less Is More Principle To Your Writing by Anthony White
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How To Apply The Less Is More Principle To Your Writing |
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One of the traps which writers often fall into is writing more than is required to communicate their message or share their story in a compelling way. It is easy to understand why. Most people who write feel deeply motivated to reach out to others with their words and have their voices "heard" in the world. As a consequence, there is an impulse to share as much as possible in order to make the greatest contribution. However, the "less is more" principle shows that the opposite is often true, especially in our current age of information overload and ever-decreasing attention spans. So how do you apply the "less is more" principle to your writing? 1. Keep it simple! We are often taught to value complexity over simplicity and most people seem to have an in-built mechanism to strive for "more". The elusive "more" is in fact never actually satisfied because as soon as we reach one target, another one appears on the horizon. So the sooner we recognise and release this as an unhelpful mindset, the better. With writing there is an elegance which comes from keeping both style and content simple, which simply means having nothing superfluous on the page. Explore this by setting a clear intention and holding your awareness on it as you write. 2. Remember that you don't have to write everything you know about a subject or a storyline. This sometimes comes as a revelation to new writers and for many people represents crossing a threshold into a more mature phase of writing. Obvious though it may at first appear to be, we are working with strong creative impulses when it comes to writing and these sometimes overrule our better judgment. So make it part of your creative process to stash away (in a file or folder) some ideas relating to your current project which may well suit a future one better and sharpen the focus of your current one in the process. 3. Decide on three outcomes for your reader and weave everything around those. My aim with this article has been to provide an example of this approach in action. I felt inspired to write on the topic of "less is more" and realised that the only way to do so successfully would be to apply the principles myself! So my intention for you is to understand what the essence of the "less is more" principle is, and why it is important for you as a writer to have an awareness of it. And my contribution would not be complete if I didn't offer you a few suggestions of how to apply all of this to positive effect with your writing. I'll look forward to hearing your comments and experience of this topic as a writer, and indeed as a reader. What books have you read lately which have succeeded with a "less is more" approach, and how will you apply this principle to your next piece of writing? thesis service
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