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Quick or wordy? What's your writing style?15 Years AgoI prefer writing long, quick stories. I don't dwell too much on descriptions. I like to move my stories along at a break neck speed. It's my writing style and i love it. I tried writing wordy, inmensely descriptive stories but didn't enjoy it. My stories are usually 10 to 15 pages long, word size:11. Which writing style do you prefer? Quick or wordy?
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[no subject]15 Years AgoI'm definitely a maunderer where writing goes. Heavily descriptive and full of polysyllables where I could use something much shorter, I nevertheless enjoy writhing in such fashion. My sentences tend to be long, sometimes overly so, and full of compound and dependent phrases. Lovecraft and would have got on famously. It's just my preference, but I can hardly get started in fifteen pages. I run to a minimum of 20,00 words and often double that. Only my short stories, and I write few of those, ever get much shorter. |
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Re: Quick or wordy? What's your writing style?14 Years AgoI try to never use two words when one will do, even in the novel I'm still editing and polishing and hoping to publish within the next year; however, I've recently learned that I have to work in description wherever I can so my readers can get a picture in their heads of people and situations I've mentioned--that took some work on my part, but I think I pulled it off.
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Re: Quick or wordy? What's your writing style?14 Years AgoI tend to be more descriptive when it's something that is important to the story. The less importance the less description needed. I mean if it's something that the character is noticing as it passes by or if it leads to a cognitive thought or action determines the level of importance.
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Re: Quick or wordy? What's your writing style?14 Years AgoI try to cut my prose down to the bare essentials to make the writing as penetrable as possible. The Elements of Style had it right when they described the reader as a man sinking in a swamp. It's the writer's job to throw him a rope.
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Re: Quick or wordy? What's your writing style?14 Years AgoI just write what I feel like. I don't try too hard to be heavily descriptive because I find too much description in others' work can lose or bore me. Stories or ideas need to move forward. For me it is often the ideas, or what the piece is trying to say, that matters. I don't want it to be too clever, or too difficult to understand.
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Re: Quick or wordy? What's your writing style?14 Years AgoI don't try to adhere to either style...though I tend to use descriptive language but not overly complex words.I just write what feels right for the poem/prose piece I'm doing at the time.
I dunno,I guess I go more for the quick style.Though if a certain word (complex or not) comes to me,I will use it. |
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Re: Quick or wordy? What's your writing style?14 Years AgoIt's depends on what i'm writing. I tend to just go with the flow of the story and let it come to me naturally.
Check out my new story call The Campus Vampires. XD
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Re: Quick or wordy? What's your writing style?14 Years AgoI use only the words I need. Description is key, but that doesn't mean I always ramble for pages upon pages. Superfluous writing bothers me.
Essential words stay. Unnecessary fat is trimmed. |
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Re: Quick or wordy? What's your writing style?14 Years AgoIt depends on what I've read recently. I love to read classic literature, and there are lots of long, flowing sentences in classic lit... so after spending some time with Dostoyevsky, I tend to get wordier than normal. Reading young adult fiction totally sends me in a different direction. My usual style is whatever seems necessary for a particular idea - if I need lots of description to set the scene, I do it, and if the scene's already set, there doesn't have to be too much description and I can focus on dialogue and actual action. I've recently begun using simple sentences (which are very alien to me, haha), and so far it isn't working amazingly. I've learned to appreciate them a little bit, though. At least more so than I have in years. I don't think in simple sentences, so they're harder to write than sentences that are grammatically correct at 3 Word lines long. |
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Wordy14 Years AgoI am extremely wordy, at least in my first few drafts. I always try to convey all the images in my head down on paper so that I can capture the proper essence of them. Then, when editing, I tend to cut out probably half of what I originally wrote. However, even then, I stay pretty descriptive. :D
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Re: Quick or wordy? What's your writing style?14 Years Agoim a mixure of both
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Re: Quick or wordy? What's your writing style?14 Years AgoI'm wordy. Too wordy, actually. When it comes to school assignments which have a word count I struggle a lot-I just love long, descriptive style of writings. But at the same time I admire quick ones which are straight to the point...
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Re: Quick or wordy? What's your writing style?14 Years AgoI flit between the two. It usually depends on what I'm writing. If it's a piece on pop culture, I'll try and keep the language quick. If it's more of an 'epic' story, I will go into more detail. It's harder for me to write descriptions, I like to keep it semi-colloquial. Much more fun!
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Re: Quick or wordy? What's your writing style?14 Years AgoQuick. I can admire people who spend hundreds of words on detail, but when you start reading a paragraph and you can see that it just goes on and on, it discourages you from reading it... at least for me.
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Re: Quick or wordy? What's your writing style?14 Years AgoMy writing style is kinda the in between of it all. I've got my parts that delve inta the exposition on a level of deep, but it seems well balanced (I'm told) by the rest. And I have my stuff that is layered well in a way where my discriptions are all woven inta my actions in a way that doesn't bog down my readers.
This is actually what I've been told by a few people... maybe I could get more opinions.
My biggest problem lately is never really knowing when and where ta add more detail or if there is enough or not enough... it's gettin annoyin.
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Re: Quick or wordy? What's your writing style?14 Years AgoI have what I like to call "Shawn's Disease". It's a malignant love of descriptive adjectives. Adjectives are my world, and I use them profusely, sometimes to my own detriment. But I would never change my wordy style.
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Re: Quick or wordy? What's your writing style?14 Years AgoI like quick, brevity is best. But I can do wordy with the best!
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Re: Quick or wordy? What's your writing style?14 Years AgoOriginally posted by -sideways- I prefer writing long, quick stories. I don't dwell too much on descriptions. I like to move my stories along at a break neck speed. It's my writing style and i love it. I tried writing wordy, inmensely descriptive stories but didn't enjoy it. My stories are usually 10 to 15 pages long, word size:11. Which writing style do you prefer? Quick or wordy? I use what is needed. |
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Re: Quick or wordy? What's your writing style?14 Years AgoOriginally posted by R.R.Louderback WORDY. I am always describing, and as some of my fellow classmates say, "Stop using such big words!" It makes me laugh.I'm definitely a maunderer where writing goes. Heavily descriptive and full of polysyllables where I could use something much shorter, I nevertheless enjoy writhing in such fashion. My sentences tend to be long, sometimes overly so, and full of compound and dependent phrases. Lovecraft and would have got on famously.
It's just my preference, but I can hardly get started in fifteen pages. I run to a minimum of 20,00 words and often double that. Only my short stories, and I write few of those, ever get much shorter. I usually type over a thousand words, mostly descriptive! |
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