Revisited- Fandango’s Provocative Question #106

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Fandango is reposting a few of his FPQs for the month of April As I’ve already answered this question last year, I am re-posting my response;

Fandango is the host of Fandango Provocative Question

FPQWelcome once again to Fandango’s Provocative Question.

Blogging is a medium of words. All of us who blog are wordsmiths. We use words almost exclusively to express ourselves, to tell our stories, to weave our tales, to write our poems, to help others to understand and possibly even appreciate our perspectives.

In the real world, words can take on different meanings depending on context, inflection, facial expressions, body language, and other countless factors. But in blogging, such visual cues are, for the most part, absent. Thus, the challenge of conveying your intended tone and the underlying meaning of what you write can be daunting. It gets down to the age-old writer’s dilemma. Is the content what matters, or how the content is portrayed or presented?

So, as we are all writers who use words to paint pictures, my provocative question is simply this:

In the context of blogging and writing, what do you think is more important: what you say or how you say it?

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I think this question is very pertinent to the bloggers. What we write is equally important as how we word it. Unless the language is very simple and the expression totally bald, it can be misconstrued by the reader in many instances.

For this very reason, I use simple language, stating what I want to say as clearly as possible. It is correct that I mostly write poetry and in a poem sometimes the meaning is lost in phrases. But I do try to be as concise as possible.

It does take a good writer to reach the heart and engage the mind of their readers all the time and I am not one of those. I have started writing my blog just above 2 years ago and am still learning to communicate well. But as most good writers advise, use as few words as possible and make the meaning clear.

I myself have experienced this issue that even after reading a post or poem many times, I wasn’t able to get a clear sense of what the writer is saying.

So my 2 cents worth of advice is to be as simple and clear as possible so that we can convey our thoughts and opinions without them being misunderstood.

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#Keepitalive

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I am writing to express my opinion, share my experiences and to maybe provide some insight. My blog is addressing women at 50 ( but men are welcome to read my posts) ,their issues and the questions that come up at this stage in life. I don’t aim to teach, but to learn together.

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28 thoughts on “Revisited- Fandango’s Provocative Question #106”

  3. Content and clarity should guarantee communication but many times coercive writers are able to skew their facts to promote their own agendas and dupe unsuspecting readers into becoming their political pawns who were duped by manipulative writers. A voice of experience on that one. Reader beware.

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  5. This you’ve answered so well. There’s every need to say what we want to say in a clear and morally acceptable way. It’s until then that our communication can have the ability of achieving Its objectives.

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  10. Simple and clear, I think, is even harder than writing with big words, etcetera. I always enjoy simplicity, which speaks volumes. You do this very well, Sadje, and you always reach our hearts and minds.

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