You always hear people talk about narrowing your writing’s focus to a single idea. Maybe, you actually listened to this good advice. However, I do have a nagging feeling that you instead chose to ignore it.
So why should you narrow the focus of every set of text you write again? Say you’re listening to me talk for the last 15 minutes. I discuss my passion for burger tacos, my activities at the art center and my interest in Eastern philosophy in rapid fire mode, all in as great a detail as I can muster. How many of those will you actually remember tomorrow?
Chances are, not a lot of them. That’s what happens you attempt to provide someone multiple information in a bunch – they slightly remember some of them, forget most and vaguely recall others. It’s the same reason your writing about a multitude of subjects under one title can end up confusing, despite the writing software declaring its two thumbs up.
That’s exactly the reason why you should consider narrowing every piece of writing you do. It’s also the same reason why it’s so easy to read a blog post, rather than a whole book – the less information to manage, the more you are able to process.
When writing essays for school, you work towards drilling all that research down to one main thesis. A news piece always makes perfect sense when it’s all about a singular event. In case you’re writing a report that covers multiple major topics, you divide them into neat sections to make it easier to digest.
Now, how about finally listening to that good advice?
