On 8 Oct 2013, at 19:04, Walt <[email protected]> wrote: > > FWIW, I read through the entire thing without a problem. Though, admittedly, > I am a pretty wordy writer. > > Still, it just doesn't strike me as all that out-of-place to muse at some > length on-topic in the context of a discussion list, or even on Facebook for > that matter, since they truncate comments and provide a link to the full > content for anyone who cares to read the whole thing. > > I think the tendency among many readers toward a "tl;dr" or "OMG, it's full > of words!" reaction to internet commentary that goes on for more than 250 > words is lamentable in a lot of ways. And if we can't go on and on about > things we have a passion for, it seems to me we're robbing ourselves of some > of the joy in having passions at all.
Everybody's entitled to go on and on about anything they want. But if you want people to read it, make it easy for them. There are many tried and tested ways of doing that. Unless you're Joyce or Kerouac (and even then...) a colossal brain dump is rarely one of them. B > > -- Walt > > >> On 10/8/2013 12:34 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 12:05:05PM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote: >>> Do journalists actually use the inverted pyramid these days? I >>> don't even thing most know what a pyramid is. >> I don't think most people know what a journalist is. >> >> >>>> On 10/7/2013 2:42 PM, Bob W wrote: >>>> The inverted pyramid is the writer's friend as far as this sort of thing >>>> is concerned. >>>> >>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid> >>>> >>>>> On 7 Oct 2013, at 10:25, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> tl;dr >>>>> >>>>> It's missing an intro. There's no clear reason why it would be >>>>> fruitful to climb that mountain of text. I got three paras in and gave >>>>> up. >>>>> >>>>> Simply leaving a blank line between para's would also help, a bit. >>>>> >>>>> Tell 'em what your're going to say. >>>>> Say it. >>>>> Summarize what you said. >>>> Or indeed: >>>> >>>> Tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em >>>> Tell 'em >>>> Tell 'em what you just told 'em >>>> >>>> (Which is not the same as the inverted pyramid) >>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> Nobody's going to read that, whatever it's about. Several long blocks of >>>>>> text - why should anyone want to read it? >>>>>> >>>>>> Whatever it is you want to say, say it in less than 7 short sentences. >>>>>> >>>>>> B >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 7 Oct 2013, at 08:56, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Stuff >>> >>> -- >>> A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the >>> crazy, crazier. >>> >>> - H.L.Mencken >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
