Shakespeare once declared
Brevity the soul of wit;
All the world’s a stage
Succinct Hemingway
Manuscripts pared to bare bones
Never words to waste
Miss Jane Austin, though,
Played with epic paragraphs
Bursting at the seams
Advice for writers
Can we get our stories straight?
Be succinct, methinks.
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Thank you.
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Yes indeed. Excellent piece.
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Wonderful!
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It’s a real chore for me to get to the point. I don’t have the succinct trait.
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I don’t have it either. That’s kind of what gave me the idea for the post—wishing I could be more succinct.
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Wow, Leslie. You are rolling out the poems. You will be ready for your own anthology soon.
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My thoughts are pretty scattered right now. I’m not accomplishing much, but can manage a few lines of something vaguely poetic.
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Sadly, brevity has never been my forte. Words that end with a “y” sound, on the other hand?
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I have trouble with succinctness. Loads of trouble. It’s beyond my capabilities to employ brevity.
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I like the wordiness of Austin and Dickens, but I do prefer to read succinct prose and short poems packed with a lot of meaning. I with you there, Leslie.
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I didn’t read Austen until about a decade ago and was flabbergasted by her page long paragraphs. It took me a while to understand her subversive sense of humor.
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