Implication Week: Stop Being Fancy
Added 2024-08-12 06:36:25 +0000 UTCI like cupcakes. If I ate as many as I wanted, I’d never eat veggies, and then I’d get sick.
Sugar is an empty calorie. It has no nutritional value. If it’s all you eat, you will develop some serious deficiencies and die.
Nobody wants to die, not even for cupcakes.
New writers love being fancy. They see it in work they do not understand, so they think that simply being complicated is enough. Intricate phrasing, weird, abstract ideas, and unusual words are not vitamins. They are cupcakes.
If you’re going to use an unexpected sentence structure merely for the sake of being fancy, you are going to fail. You’ve got to grow into these complexities by first understanding why the great writers use the tools they do.
If you don’t understand what those complexities and nuances are for, you’re not eating vitamins. You’re eating cupcakes.
Stop being fancy. Grow into your knowledge. Only use tools if you have an explicit reason. Make sure it’s a good reason, or your writing will die.
