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

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Which just goes to show that wit takes work, and thought, and sometimes editing.

I believe the process is as valuable as the product, so I really actually preferred the longer version, because it gave a more complete view of both your state of mind right now and how you arrived at this new (cool) insight.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. If there's one thing I've learned so far in my attempts to Be A Writer, it's that editing and revising are good stuff.

The longer version definitely gave a better view of the landscape, yeah. This one's all "Mountain A, Mountain B, click here for the Kodak moment, kthxbye."