For blogging, keeping your thoughts short, simple and sweet is better then longer prose, too ornate or wordy. One can be lost in a jungle of jumbled words which fail to arrive at quick solutions to situations or strong conclusions to a story. Sometimes there is not enough time in a day or night to read all blogs. And that’s why humor (along with the visual images) and poetry (with audio attachments) almost always makes for better reading than mere words.
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http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/too-much-of-a-good-thing/
[…] where dailypost readers draw the line. How much tangential prose are you willing to put up with reading if the prose is beautiful but the substance not apparently wholly relevant?
So, how tolerant are you of what many might reasonably consider superfluous prose? How do you decide what’s superfluous and what’s not? Do you buy my statement above that sometimes digression can be justified for aesthetic or other purposes, or is the sort of maximalism I enjoy reading pure self-indulgence? If you tend to write more stark prose, would you consider an exercise in writing something more ornate? If you tend to be wordy, would you consider an exercise in writing something pared down?
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