Creative Writing Is Like Going To An Amazing Buffet
Have you ever been to a food buffet? Usually the choices are amazing if you go to a good location. It can be challenging to decide which choice of foods you want.
Well, creative writing is a very similar situation. There are so many choices of topics that can be written about it can be challenging to know where to begin and which topic will create the desired result.
It is also challenging when going to a food buffet not to overeat. Everything looks good and tastes good and it is not until after you leave the buffet that you often discover you over ate. Then it takes a bit of time to digest all of the food you consumed.
Again, very similar to creative writing. You want to add a lot of extra data to really convince the reader that you know what you are talking about as you are writing and, in doing so, can over deliver but not in a good way. You reader can go away from your material feeling much like they do when they over eat the food at the buffet.
After you have written your material, set it aside a short period of time and then come back and re read your information. If you begin to feel like it’s too much information, you can start to edit your work so you are giving the reader high quality content and in just the right amount for them to grasp the ideas you are sharing with them.
Sometimes we need help in editing because it often is hard to determine how much content is just the right amount. I personally have experienced this when I wrote what I thought was a very short, clear explanation of a topic and did it in 9 chapters. I asked someone else to read it for me who had a number of published books and when she came back to me I was shocked to hear her say that I had so over delivered the material that I could take each of the nine chapters and create a separate book out of it. I had no idea that I had 9 books in what I thought was 1.
Get fresh eyes on your writing by setting it aside for a short period of time and then coming back to re read your content. Another way is to have someone who has the skill to edit who can look at your work objectively and make the appropriate cuts or request the corrected additions of content to make your work readable, enjoyable and work so that your readers want to appreciate it again and again and come back to you for more.
I learned to write from my mother who was an extraordinary teacher. She made it so much fun to communicate with words that I grew up enjoying every area that had to do with writing especially if there was a creative twist to it. I feel fortunate to have that kind of relationship with language. I appreciate stories, good articles and books. Along the way, I have been able to share with others my joy of writing and creativity.
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