As with many projects, Brevity started out with a bang, and has slowed down. I still have plans for t, but a couple things have happened.

One is that I’ve just gotten too damned busy. Got a couple of side projects going, plus writing about 1/4th of the ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook with Joey Lott and Darron Schall, tech reviewing Programming Flex 2.0 by Joey Lott and Chafic Kazoun, and rewriting my own Foundation ActionScript Animation: Making Things Move! for AS 3. That’s on top of a full time job and family. Just ain’t no time left for Brevity!

The other thing is that I want to turn Brevity into an Apollo application, but I kind of have to wait until I can get my hands on Apollo. (Hint, hint, Mike.) It’s currently all done in Python and wxPython, which is great for cross platform stuff, but requires that stuff being installed on the machine. I’ve done well with getting py2exe creating a standalone for the pc, but was still struggling with py2app for the mac. Having it be an Apollo app would make a lot of really cool things possible, and probably open the door to more people contributing to it.

So Brevity is on hold for a bit until I finish some of these projects, free up some time, and get my mitts on Apollo. Of course, I’m assuming anyone even cares. But I’m going to do it even if nobody does care, so there!

I did not believe Shakespeare when he said that brevity is the soul of wit. It is, I believed, simply not my style. Going forward, though, reading a wide variety of works changed my mind. The challenge to any writer is to make the article clear, concise, and readable. After all, the purpose of writing is to express. The simpler the language, the more people understand and appreciate what I write. The wider my audience, the more effective my writing becomes.