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unspeakablehorror ([personal profile] unspeakablehorror) wrote2019-07-29 02:37 pm
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Conveying Information

A 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.

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