Conveying Information
Jul. 29th, 2019 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unspeakablehorrorA lot of times when I'm writing I have to supress the urge to go off on 5 million tangents and explanations if I ever want to finish what I have to say. Sometimes I worry I overcorrect for that and don't clarify enough, or end up simplifying something too much, but in the past I would often just give up trying to communicate a lot of things at all so I've been trying to get past the impulse that says that unless I can convey an idea 100% correctly and completely then it's not worth conveying at all. Still makes me uncomfortable though, lol. I have trouble figuring out if I'm striking the right balance a lot of the time.
This is more a problem with my writing outside of fiction because in that case I become very concerned with factual rigor whereas with fiction that's less of a concern. Still, I think there's a bit of this in my fiction too given my tendency to write incredibly long stories to elaborate on my themes and my perfectionistic streak. It's just a bit less psychologically overwhelming for me.
This is more a problem with my writing outside of fiction because in that case I become very concerned with factual rigor whereas with fiction that's less of a concern. Still, I think there's a bit of this in my fiction too given my tendency to write incredibly long stories to elaborate on my themes and my perfectionistic streak. It's just a bit less psychologically overwhelming for me.