A great blog post, about a course we all need to take. Who could teach it?
"It would be a writing course. Every assignment would be delivered in five versions: A three page version, a one page version, a three paragraph version, a one paragraph version, and a one sentence version.
I don't care about the topic. I care about the editing. I care about the constant refinement and compression. I care about taking three pages and turning it one page. Then from one page into three paragraphs. Then from three paragraphs into one paragraph. And finally, from one paragraph into one perfectly distilled sentence.
Along the way you'd trade detail for brevity. Hopefully adding clarity at each point. This is important because I believe editing is an essential skill that is often overlooked and under appreciated. The future belongs to the best editors."
I hope the future comes soon enough.
ReplyDeleteI like your idea of brevity and distilling the idea down into its essense. But what worries me is that it's a lot like twitter. Have we indeed seen the future?
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