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Mindset principle: Balance the ingredients like an artist

Mindset principle: Balance the ingredients like an artist

From the course: Writing with Flair: How to Become an Exceptional Writer

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Mindset principle: Balance the ingredients like an artist

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- Now all the different tricks and techniques in this course go towards showing you how simplicity, clarity, elegance, and evocativeness can contribute to the beauty of your writing. But you must use the ingredients like an artist, not like a technician. Using these four ingredients like an artist can sometimes mean considering whether simplicity, for instance, my be compromised for evocativeness, or whether elegance may occasionally have to be sacrificed for the sake of clarity. Jane Austen, her writing isn't nescessarily the most simple form of writing. We could probably think of many words to cut out to make it simpler. But it is, for many people, evocative, making us laugh out loud at times with it's delicious irony for instance. So an elite writer doesn't just throw everything into the pot and hope that it tastes nice. Like a master chef, a artistic writer balance his or her ingredients in a way that achieves the best taste for whatever meal that they're preparing. So once you've…

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