Tuesday, January 26, 2010

K.I.S.S. method

Shelli at Market my Words had a great post on slimming down your writing.  This made me think of what method we backyard chicken farmers use.  I love chickens and I am a member on a chicken forum.  They always advise when caring for chickens to use the K.I.S.S. method.  Well heck I love that method and use it in other aspects of my life.  Why not use it in writing too. 



K            Keep

I              It

S             Simple                                     

S             Stupid


When revising I had to keep this in mind.  It was easy to get to wordy and blah.  So here is to Keeping it simple!
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6 comments:

Elana Johnson said...

Shelli is an amazing writer and marketer!

And yes! The K.I.S.S method should totally work for writing!

Unknown said...

I remember the K.I.S.S method... actually all my uni writing professors kept spouting that motto... so it should really help with writing.

lisa and laura said...

Um, yeah, we are a couple of wordy bitc...er...gals. We just deleted 12,000 words from our manuscript and didn't lose any actual plot. Yeah.

Brenda Drake said...

I just wrote K.I.S.S. on my dry erase board. I can get kinda wordy sometime. When I cut the first two chapters of my current WIP it made the story start where it should have in the first place -- with action. Thanks Kerri!

Kerri Cuev said...

I am glad I thought to post this lol!
I find it easy to get carried away...oops!

Kerri Cuev said...

carried away with words that is.