Transparent Prose: What it is and isn't...

This is the last time I try to record outside. I can't fix the audio... sorry.

So I recently had a video that was demonetized by YouTube but I am not sure why. It was focused on overly elaborate prose (using a word beginning with 'P' that sounds a bit like pretend...tious). Anyway, I thought I would approach the topic again but from a different angle.
So this time I am discussing Transparent Prose, or Windex Prose, or Window Prose... basically prose that does not 'intrude', and some of the assumptions that we make about it.

Yes, I talk about Brandon Sanderson, but also Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell.

By the way, there is a great post by Elizabeth Bear that talks a lot about aesthetics, style, and how style and voice interact with story, and how we often have false dichotomies in which voice is seen as antithetical to story. https://matociquala.livejournal.com/8...

Intro and Music by Professor Trip
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Some further reading that might be of interest:
https://data.oecd.org/pisa/reading-pe...
https://www.oecd.org/skills/piaac/Cou... (In particular see page 13. Interesting reading.)

https://www.bbc.com/news/education-29... An interesting and short article on the subject of literacy.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/analy... for some breakdown of 'reading ages' in regards to news articles. Admittedly Wired isn't a great source, but it refers to the research done by others.