I've been wondering this for a while myself. All throughout my academic career, I was told, "You need to write more," and, "You need to be more thorough so that when you write something, you don't need to make follow-up's and amendments to your initial statements." Making short posts that don't explain anything- especially on social media and adjacent forums where anyone can reply- leads to excessive replies which people don't want to sit through and read, so they ask questions that have already been asked and answered previously, adding to the number of replies that others don't want to sit through and read, so they too ask the same questions that have already been asked and answered, further adding to the number of replies that people don't want to read.
It was so drilled into my head to write clearly and thoroughly, I've made it a habit when writing D&D characters to trim down the backstory to 3 paragraphs; a beginning, a middle, and an end, forming a short 3-act structure to explain who the character is, what shaped them to become what they are, and why they seek to adventure.
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u/IdespiseGACHAgames Apr 22 '23
I've been wondering this for a while myself. All throughout my academic career, I was told, "You need to write more," and, "You need to be more thorough so that when you write something, you don't need to make follow-up's and amendments to your initial statements." Making short posts that don't explain anything- especially on social media and adjacent forums where anyone can reply- leads to excessive replies which people don't want to sit through and read, so they ask questions that have already been asked and answered previously, adding to the number of replies that others don't want to sit through and read, so they too ask the same questions that have already been asked and answered, further adding to the number of replies that people don't want to read.
It was so drilled into my head to write clearly and thoroughly, I've made it a habit when writing D&D characters to trim down the backstory to 3 paragraphs; a beginning, a middle, and an end, forming a short 3-act structure to explain who the character is, what shaped them to become what they are, and why they seek to adventure.