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?