The hellish forced attempts at immersion from people being told over and over as writers to “show, don’t tell” - I won’t indulge in a rant about it here, as it’s off-topic anyway, but that adage and the resulting prose drives me up the wall.
It’s annoying as a university student as well because we are always lectured heavily on writing directly, not colourfully. We have to state the information outright and a penalized for flowery prose. So seeing this type of writing published just makes me frustrated. They think it adds to the immersion, but it actually does the opposite. I’m here to read an article, not Lord of the Rings. I just want the information, not a short story. It actually makes the article harder to read and get through when it’s focused on “world building” rather than the situation at hand. I wonder if it has to do with the journalists wanting to spin an inspiration narrative about Ukraine, to keep up public support.
The hellish forced attempts at immersion from people being told over and over as writers to “show, don’t tell” - I won’t indulge in a rant about it here, as it’s off-topic anyway, but that adage and the resulting prose drives me up the wall.
It’s annoying as a university student as well because we are always lectured heavily on writing directly, not colourfully. We have to state the information outright and a penalized for flowery prose. So seeing this type of writing published just makes me frustrated. They think it adds to the immersion, but it actually does the opposite. I’m here to read an article, not Lord of the Rings. I just want the information, not a short story. It actually makes the article harder to read and get through when it’s focused on “world building” rather than the situation at hand. I wonder if it has to do with the journalists wanting to spin an inspiration narrative about Ukraine, to keep up public support.