Who would have ever thought we’d be writing a blog post about whatever we want? Writing about whatever you want is fun! There doesn’t have to be any structure to whatever you write. Gone are the worries of describing mundane events from your life in an overly dramatic, needlessly compelling, ridiculously wordy, stupidly over sized paper. Think about that for a minute. I mean, every time you sit down at your desk, office, class room, or wherever else it is you find yourself when tasked with writing a paper like this, take note of one thing.“What is this thing?” you ask? It’s the fact that anytime you’re writing one of these papers all that being asked of you is to take a topic, whatever it may be, find out what they facts are, then exaggerate the hell out of them with savvy, emotional stimulating word play. That’s it. In my opinion, there really is nothing more to it than that.
I suppose one could argue that my viewpoint is, in some way, very flawed. Who knows, they may even present it to me in one of those over exaggerated, emotionally stimulating, pointlessly long, essays of misery, I love so much! All kidding aside though, consider this before you completely discount my seemingly anger driven viewpoint of this subject.
When you write something like this, do you really consider your audience? Now you might say, “of course I do, that’s the silliest question I’ve ever heard!” Read on though and you may find that the above question isn’t so silly after all.
For instance, if your writing a biography for a Skate Boarding magazine, do you really think the audience of that magazine is intended for is really going to sit there and read your wordy description of the events in someone’s life. The answer is no; they’ll pick it up for ten minutes of so if you’re lucky, read the articles that interest them and be on their way. The rest of their time will probably be used skateboarding. In cases such as this, there is no need for such clever, polished, emotionally charged, language. In this case it would be more useful to state just the essential facts, and attract the reader in some other way. For example, you could use pictures to attract their eye to your article.
The bottom line here is: Before you write a paper, decide how much an emotional stimulus is really needed for your intended audience, otherwise you run the risk of over doing it. Nobody wants to read your piece of writing if it’s pointlessly overcharged with emotion. Believe me, it creates boredom.
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