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| Sep 3 at 13:43 | history | edited | codeMonkey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 3 at 5:48 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | @garbia Oh. Clarity and simplicity can be related but they are not the same. Any good math textbook will prove that extremely complex writing can also be very clear. I wonder if it would help you to ask about clarity instead of simplicity, since those are not the same. | |
| Sep 2 at 19:58 | comment | added | R.M. | @garbia Note that clarity does not necessarily require simplicity, nor does prose being convoluted (or even just complex in structure) imply it's sophisticated. | |
| Sep 2 at 15:59 | comment | added | user25421 | I was also criticized recently for writing convoluted questions somewhere else. | |
| Sep 2 at 15:57 | comment | added | user25421 | I am sorry for giving the wrong impression. I have not written any fiction lately, except one short story which technically is not published, but in the past I asked for critiques on things I wrote, and was criticized for being unclear. | |
| Sep 2 at 15:27 | history | answered | codeMonkey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |