We’re surrounded by ugliness everywhere. Don’t make your writing further contribute to the problem.
Focus on delivering the message in a way that makes the probability of misunderstanding it by an intelligent enough with good intentions individual as low as possible. Many people focus on making their writing look good or appear less boring, at the expense of delivering the meaning as accurately as possible. Many people ignore how sustained the focus of their readers will be after expressing something a certain way. No one keeps in mind whether or not the focus of their reader will remain the same after throwing something useless within their sentence. Everybody focuses on being themselves and accepting themselves the way they are while writing. They focus on expressing themselves to the fullest, loving themselves unconditionally, and saying what they want the way that they want. They are just here to vent and feel better. They are here to document their journey. These are good principles in and of themselves, but they are supposed to be of concern when it comes to your private life and how you intend to live it. I’m sorry, but as authentic and relatable as this might make you become or look like, this isn’t what’s going to distinguish you as a world renowned writer. If I read your work and fail to get anything new out of it, you failed in your job as a writer. I understood nothing, I strayed away a lot while reading it, and felt bored, trapped, and stuck countless times along the way, and ended up with nothing at the end of the process. This means your writing sucks. It’s always the writer’s fault, unless proved otherwise. You told me a ton of useless stories and talked about a lot of stuff that added nothing to the core message that you wanted to deliver, and made me hate the idea of reading books or articles as a medium or format for communication in and of itself, regardless of who’s the individual who has written them. You managed to make me prefer consuming information through video to the written word. I know that beauty matters when it comes to writing. But are you really making what you’re writing more beautiful, or are you just trying to manufacture beauty in order to cover for or make up for the lack of substance and meaning in what you’re talking about? I’m not trying to tell you to be brief. I’m not trying to tell you to speak less, silence is golden, or do not speak unless spoken to. I want you to write way more than you currently do in terms of quantity, even if at the expense of quality, so long as the quality does not fall too much below a certain minimal acceptable level. Just please, make sure you don’t waste our time. Make it worth our while. Make us understand what you’re talking about. Make us come up with something new from what you are saying. Please, say something new every step of the way, instead of creating something that looks good but is devoid of any meaning, benefit, or value. Make it impossible to summarize what you have said in a few bullet points without leaving more than ninety percent of what you’ve said behind.
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