When I speak of adding detail, I regard a single picture or a single story as an entity. Not a page or a certain working space.
As I was writing my response, I guessed this was how you were viewing it, and it makes sense, but I worked hard to keep that theory/view from entering my argument too much, or else there would be no debate - I'd just be debating with myself! :)
Of course, this is a handy skill to have when bored and alone. I assign one of my muses a side and we discuss. This might be called schizophrenia in some circles...:D
See, I like detail, but it seems very easy to fall into the trap of too much detail - detail more than complexity (in terms of writing especially). I know that poorly written detail is boring for me to read, and I cannot tell what is good versus poor detail inclusion in my own writing, so I tend to exclude more than I include. Plus I have a habit of getting stuck on detail and never getting anywhere. (As I might've mentioned before, at some point.) I guess it also depends on where one's individual threshold of complexity versus clutter is.
I could use some wordiness about now. I could honestly sum up my essay in a few sentences. And I think I would need 500x spacing to take up five pages.
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When I speak of adding detail, I regard a single picture or a single story as an entity. Not a page or a certain working space.
As I was writing my response, I guessed this was how you were viewing it, and it makes sense, but I worked hard to keep that theory/view from entering my argument too much, or else there would be no debate - I'd just be debating with myself! :)
Of course, this is a handy skill to have when bored and alone. I assign one of my muses a side and we discuss. This might be called schizophrenia in some circles...:D
See, I like detail, but it seems very easy to fall into the trap of too much detail - detail more than complexity (in terms of writing especially). I know that poorly written detail is boring for me to read, and I cannot tell what is good versus poor detail inclusion in my own writing, so I tend to exclude more than I include. Plus I have a habit of getting stuck on detail and never getting anywhere. (As I might've mentioned before, at some point.) I guess it also depends on where one's individual threshold of complexity versus clutter is.
I could use some wordiness about now. I could honestly sum up my essay in a few sentences. And I think I would need 500x spacing to take up five pages.