Card #32 – ”Simplify”

Card #32 – ”Simplify” from the Creative Whack Pack

Available on the iOS App Store and as a physical deck of cards

Editor: “I like your book except for the ending.”

Author: “What’s wrong with the ending?”

Editor: “It should be closer to the beginning.”

Less can be more!

As writer Truman Capote put it: “I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.”

But getting to “less” does not happen without effort.

Bass player Charles Mingus on the power and challenge of producing simply expressed ideas:

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creative.”

And worth it.

— What can you edit out of a current project or idea to make it better?

— What can you streamline?

— Where would less be more?

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