How Many Words Does It Take to Convey a Thought?

If you are an article writer and perhaps you want to convey a thought; have you ever considered how many words it takes to convey a thought? Well, let me give you the short end of it and here is a thought; I am! You see, it does not necessarily take a lot of words or a long sentence or a long paragraph or a long article to convey a thought. In fact, if you will reread this paragraph you will see that it does convey a complete thought.

That thought being that; conveying thoughts with words, does not necessarily take a lot of words. Do you see my point? In fact the paragraph above conveys two thoughts. The first thought is that it does not take a lot of words to convey a thought. And the second thought is the example given; I am. I am. Well, this a complete thought and it is a complete sentence and it conveys a specific point. Now then, as you can see the second paragraph, this paragraph is not needed here because you already know what I meant by the first paragraph. Even though I have doubled the words and written an additional paragraph even longer than the first paragraph; the second paragraph is not needed. You already got the point.

Does the additional paragraph in fact add anything to the thought? No, it does not; not in the least. I am convinced that you already understood from the very first paragraph and needed no further elaboration. Would you say that the thought in the first paragraph is garbage? Would you say if it does not fulfill the reader with the proper message? Do you believe that an article must be 250 words to be a complete thought or have meaning to the reader? Because right now in this article we are at over 250 words right now.

You see, the word count of an article is completely irrelevant to the conveying of human thought from one person to another in the written form. As a matter of fact a single quote, well written may convey more thought than in an article of 2500 words. For instance; Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death! If I continue this article and give more examples of the original thought that might be nice, but since you already got the point, then the number of words to convey a message is irrelevant. Now then I will soon be at 350, 400 or 500 words in this article you see? Would that make this article more significant; yes or no!

All too often article writers will write too much and their wording will be too flowery and that simply doesn't work for the modern Internet surfer. People won't read it, because it is too long. If they have to scroll down the page in an Internet article you will lose 40% of your traffic, does that help your article marketing efforts? I should say not. Where will the Internet surfer go next? Well instead they will click out of the article and go read something else, you lose.

If you will note that the average news story on the Internet is written with less than 250 to 300 words then you will see my point. And a news article is explaining any event not just a thought, which is generally wordy due to the number of details in it. Sometimes to engage the reader; less words are better than more, because you got them thinking and engaged their minds. In article marketing the goal is to get the reader to do something. Do what? Well, to get them to change their opinion, consider an alternative view, think about something, buy something and to visit your website for more information. But if you give them all the information, why should they go to your website? And if the article is too long they get bored and leave. Either way this makes little sense really. But in reality my point is that it does not take a lot of words to convey the point that thoughts and concepts can be conveyed in very little words. Now then if you are still reading this now, they you are mostly likely the remaining 50% or so, I lost the others. Who did that hurt? Me, so why am I wasting my time writing this article? You get the point. Perhaps you might consider this in 2006; just a thought.

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Lance Winslow, a retired entrepreneur, adventurer, modern day philosopher and perpetual tourist.

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