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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
go to the last comment here and tell me what you think. |
"Too many notes, Mozart. Too many notes."
That's an exaggeration, sure, but that was the first thing that popped into my head reading that comment.
By no means do I believe that fewer words = better storytelling as an axiom. And I say that as someone who, while editing, does indeed subscribe to "cut words where ever you can" as a rule of thumb.
Some of the changes suggested in that comment don't flow as well as the original and certainly don't set the same tone. Some don't even convey the same meaning (the people didn't come out of their shops to crane their necks, for goodness sake...they could have craned their necks in the privacy of their own basements if that was the point....)
Might some of the individual suggestions be worth considering if you were to re-edit? Sure. But as a style? Nope. They might as well be telling you to craft all fairy tales in the style of a 2nd grade history text book.
ApK