Most of my posts here will most likely be ideas I’ve picked up on while doing reading for my two literature classes, but today I’ve decided to share some things that stood out to me about my writing in my “other” writing class: Technical Writing. I thought most of what I would learn in this class would be only applicable to the world of writing that is outside of the creative writing realm. However last week’s readings made me think that maybe all of education is more interrelated that I had originally thought, especially for a writer.
Last week we were learning about writing policies and reducing wordiness. I’m not exactly sure how policy writing would apply to my creative writing (maybe I could write a story about a guy who wrote policies- sounds thrilling, eh?) but reducing wordiness is nothing new to me. Even though I hate the long, rambling, getting-nowhere portions of reading I tend myself to take the scenic route in when writing. My greatest downfall at solving this problem comes with the thought, “But it’s all important!”
