Post by paulpogue on Sept 10, 2009 8:34:56 GMT -8
Brevity is the soul of wit, they say, and indeed, it is the soul of communication. All truly important information in the world can be conveyed with just a few words. (Yes, I recognize the irony of this coming from someone who uses so very many words.) "It's cancer." "I love you." "I do." "I want a divorce." "Holocaust." "He's not going to make it." "He's going to make it."
Ernest Hemingway once said that the greatest challenge of writing would be to create a story with a beginning, middle and end, which conveyed the maximum amount of information, and had an emotional heft, and to do it in seven words or less. (His contribution to the micro-genre: "For sale, baby shoes, never worn." My favorite one ever created was from Alan Moore: "in time. I appear to have traveled".)
A few words can tell a story. A few words can say a thousand more. A few words can redraw the map of the universe.
My contribution to the genre was determined at 10:48 a.m., Sept. 10, 2009:
"Second ultrasound. It's a girl."
pfpp/091009/1220hrs/neverstopbelieving
Ernest Hemingway once said that the greatest challenge of writing would be to create a story with a beginning, middle and end, which conveyed the maximum amount of information, and had an emotional heft, and to do it in seven words or less. (His contribution to the micro-genre: "For sale, baby shoes, never worn." My favorite one ever created was from Alan Moore: "in time. I appear to have traveled".)
A few words can tell a story. A few words can say a thousand more. A few words can redraw the map of the universe.
My contribution to the genre was determined at 10:48 a.m., Sept. 10, 2009:
"Second ultrasound. It's a girl."
pfpp/091009/1220hrs/neverstopbelieving
