{"id":1983,"date":"2015-07-30T01:30:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T06:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2015-07-20T18:35:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T23:35:41","slug":"length-vs-effort-in-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2015\/07\/length-vs-effort-in-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Length vs Effort in Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contrary to popular belief, length and effort in writing are inversely\u2014not directly\u2014proportional.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In writing, length and effort are inversely proportional. Writing short, brief, to-the-point pieces require more effort than writing long, wandering pieces.Of course we know this, but often forget it.<\/p>\n<div>I once worked on a career description at work. I worked and worked and worked on the description until I had reduced it to fill only one side of one piece of paper. The person to whom I submitted the description was furious. He had given me the chance to put &#8220;some thought&#8221; into the description and really do a good job.<\/div>\n<div>He felt that length and effort were directly proportional. He was quite disappointed in me.<\/div>\n<div>Someone who has thought of something for 30 years can state it in 5 to 7 words. The rest of us, we have to meander for pages and pages.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Contrary to popular belief, length and effort in writing are inversely\u2014not directly\u2014proportional. In writing, length and effort are inversely proportional. Writing short, brief, to-the-point pieces require more effort than writing long, wandering pieces.Of course we know this, but often forget it. I once worked on a career description at work. I worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}