Clevernick, I enjoyed your brief glimpse into Alex's and Miranda's exchange. I'd like to know what happens with them next.

Quote Originally Posted by Rhabbi View Post
Writing is about using the fewest words to express your ideas.
Rhabbi, you cannot honestly believe that. Seriously.

Consider the following:

"At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being--the reward he seeks--the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, to make his life prevail through his creation, to wreak the vision of his life, the rude and painful substance of his own experience, into the congruence of blazing and enchanted images that are themselves the core of life, the essential pattern whence all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity."

From: Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe

That passage is infinitely more of everything when compared to using the fewest words, such as, "I write to get a response from readers." There is NO comparison to be had.

Ok sure, bad grammar and misspellings are issues to be cognizant of as a writer. That's a given. But words are the very soul of what writing is. Little words, big words and all of them in between- cutting them out, throwing them away, using the fewest possible??? That makes absolutely no sense to me. Certainly not advice to be handing out in the Writers Block.

(And don't blame it on the blonde. If you try doing that, I will invoke the spirits of all the great authors gone on before us to come haunt you.)

~orders an extra large pizza for Mr. Dean~ Papa John's is the only one near me who delivers. Hope that's okay. If not, well, I tried. It is the thought that counts. Even when ordering cyber-pizza.