Brevity is the soul of having thought about it some more

[cjsmith]

Yesterday's long-winded Plucky Girl In The Face Of Adversity post could really have been summed up in a heck of a lot fewer words.

Background:

1) My feet are @#$!d up
2) #1 will never go away
3) I seriously hate both #1 and #2

The Main Point:

4) #3 will never go away
5) #4 is kind of sane, really.

There. Simple!

Comments

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* Yes, that can be a challenge. But seriously, I think you'd be GOOD at it. You reduced a whole page of text to its essence without losing any of the important bits. Clear, concise, elegant. Impressive.

And I think if you did this in the biosciences (or any sciences) it would be a GIFT to academia. They so desperately need people who can get to the goshdarned point!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Amazing how much clarity comes from knowing ahead of time what exactly it is I really want to say. Brainstorm-hemorrhaging onto the paper gets it all out; revision two is the Pocket Reference Guide.