{"id":476,"date":"2015-08-03T23:36:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T21:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/?p=476"},"modified":"2015-08-03T23:36:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T21:36:40","slug":"how-intoxicating-is-verbosity-in-prose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/how-intoxicating-is-verbosity-in-prose","title":{"rendered":"How intoxicating is verbosity in prose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you like to slash your way through dense verbiage with your intellectual machete, marvelling at the lush lexical landscape, or do you find it heavy going being snagged by either the rich profusion of words or accosted by mysterious etymologies lurking in the thesaurian thickets?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/how-intoxicating-is-verbosity-in-prose\/xpacifica-ayung-river-bends-through-the-lush-dense-tropical-jungle1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-474\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/xpacifica-ayung-river-bends-through-the-lush-dense-tropical-jungle1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/xpacifica-ayung-river-bends-through-the-lush-dense-tropical-jungle1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/xpacifica-ayung-river-bends-through-the-lush-dense-tropical-jungle1.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While old-school descriptive prose may delight with its multi-layered richness, Hemingway\u2019s literary vehicle, for example, is simplicity. He branded wordiness the writer\u2019s evil. I\u2019m somewhat guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Stark yet emotive wordscapes describe reality with the same compelling candour as an impressionist painter\u2019s masterly-measured brush strokes, allowing one to savour the singular metaphor like a Kadupul forest flower just uncovered at midnight. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/how-intoxicating-is-verbosity-in-prose\/575x575\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-475\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/575x575-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"575x575\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/575x575-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/575x575.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Know the masters, then mix and match styles to create your own unique writing personality. Play lavishly. But don\u2019t combine styles simply for the sake thereof \u2013 that\u2019s tantamount to painting every room in your home in a different colour. Hunker down. Less is usually more. Even I\u2019m learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you like to slash your way through dense verbiage with your intellectual machete, marvelling at the lush lexical landscape, or do you find it heavy going being snagged by either the rich profusion of words or accosted by mysterious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/how-intoxicating-is-verbosity-in-prose\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words-2","tag-writing-style"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}