posted by steve | Category: Random Rants |

I’m writing a review for a book and while rereading some of the paragraphs I noticed that I’m having one of those wordy writing days; one of those days where I write several words to express one thought when one or two words would do.  A symptom of such a malady is the use of semi-colons (oops, already used one in this post).   I wonder as to the source of this wordiness.  It may be from having to obtain a higher page count for certain unnamed publishers or it could be from reading old (1800′s and early 1900′s) writing where the sentence structure was much more formal.

Either way, it’s making editing a more difficult task.  It’ll be interesting to see how the final review ends up.  I should leave it unedited, take a word count, and then edit it down and compare the word count.  Bah.  That’s too much work.