Are You Overcomplicating Things When You Blog? (Part 1)
I once had a roommate deliver a speech on something or other.
In fact, I don’t remember what the speech was, only the example. In it, someone was walking to a job interview in a white suit. He sees someone in the water, jumps in, and saves them. That’s why when he gets to the job interview late, he has a spot on his suit, and doesn’t get the job.
The actual illustration was MUCH longer than this, as the fellow meandered through many trials and tribulations, all of which served to get his clothes dirty (which I think was the point of the tale).
The sad part - I remember this train wreck of a so-called ‘illustration’, but I have no idea the point, or the subject!
Blog writing can be overcomplicated as well. It’s possible to go off onto a different subject, lose focus, relate things that don’t need to be related, and so on - all of which get away from the core reason for writing the post.
And the solution? Pause, reread, and edit.
As a real example, this article originally started with an illustration drawn from a guilty pleasure of mine, perpetual motion machines. I was going to point out how their excess complication can sometimes hide simple mechanisms that aren’t perpetual at all. Likewise, overcomplicated posts can confuse issues that would be clear otherwise.
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