My sister's writing, compared to mine, is rather beige.

The best type of prose. Period. Short and to the point, so you can pay more attention to what's really important: plot and character developement.

This Troper is guilty of this. I have a tendency to describe things matter-of-factly. I have a large vocabulary. I just have difficulty thinking of the right words. My descriptions tend to sound like police reports so I tend to skip straight to dialogue, which I tend to think sounds more interesting. entry is an exaggeration of my writing style, but not that big of one.

Sounds familiar. Though I try to either build upon my beige writing, or play it for laughs by using beige language to describe absurd situations.

This troper's preferred and constant way of writing. Like the above troper, dialogue is much, much easier and more dynamic for me to write.

Somehow I got roped into beta-reading some really awful beige-prose fanfic. It makes me want to punch myself, because the beige prose lends itself to some of the most awkward portrayals of things that should be heartwarming/romantic, whatever.

This troper's job requires him to write defect reports in this format. He loathes it.

Purple is fun in writing, but in real life this troper prefers beige mainly because on the internet or on paper one can edit and think out what they have to say before being forced to blurt it out.

This troper has become so paranoid about not writing PurpleProse that he often simplifies his writing into BeigeProse.

Same! This editor has to reign in his PurpleProse and {{Walls of Text}}, but always overshoots and goes too far in the opposite direction. He's finding it difficult to keep to the middle ground, but he's trying. He does like the challenge of finding the absolute minimum wordage, especially the right words, to convey everything.

If the two previous tropers weren't male, this troper would think she wrote one of those two comments and forgot about it. I'm at risk for unintentional BeigeProse anyways because I'm something of an EmotionlessGirl, but I'm also really, really paranoid about basically any kind of flourish in my writing coming off as {{Narm}}. I make up for that by being a LemonyNarrator, but for the longest time I had this complex about how that style was unprofessional in a "real" work, so BeigeProse was pretty much the only option left.

This troper boomerangs between the two due to fear of both. Observe the snap from beige to purple between these two consecutive sentences: #QUOTE#He took to sleeping in the factory at night, working on the electrics when he woke up in the morning and turning to the simpler jobs of clearing and planting when his mind became too tired to continue with rewiring the systems. At last Peter was able to throw the switch on a working system and start the genetically supercharged vegetables of President Wedgwood’s greatest dream growing again. #QUOTE#This troper likes the above troper's excerpt.

I always say, don't say what doesn't need to be said. Might be why I prefer graphic novels.

I've always had a saying about that: "The king walks into the room, and no one gives a shit about the colour of the pots on the wall. The king just walked into the room."

Guilty as charged. If it can be described in five words, I'll try to describe it in three.

This troper always writes BeigeProse for any class taught by the business department. Scott Adams was right. I've gotten As on some truly awful essays because I wrote them on a fifth-grade reading level.

This troper is a mathematician, and he writes like one. Descriptions exist to provide a framework rather than fill in the details. Lessons are taught through example and argument rather than appealing to the reader. More effort is spent explaining why a person feels an emotion than how the emotion affects them. His only depicted sex scene to date has been deliberate IKEAErotica, with no passion whatsoever. In hindsight, none of his stories have even established the protagonist's hair color. he made it onto a Fanfic Recs page anyway.

All of that sounds good to me. It also all sounds applicable to ErnestHemingway.

This troper is in a roleplay forum, and is the only one stuck with this habit. I look quite stupid compared to the rest of 'em, too.

This troper is creating a card game in which entire plots have to be summarized on standard playing cards in 10pt text. He's learned to convey as much information as possible into the least space.

This troper has an irrational fear of Purple Prosing. As a result, she overuses beige prose. She's tried going so far as to describe what a character's wearing, but she always thinks it sounds like Costume Porn, so she leaves it to the reader's imagination.

My prose tends to be purple shading to ultraviolet. Unfortunately, university applications have strict character limits, so I had to take some fairly severe measures to curb my verbosity.

Radioactive Zombie - In RPs, when I'm portraying another character (and especially one RP that ''requires'' to play as a character in published media), I don't want to fuck up the character, and I often can't dredge up a decent paragraph.

On the other hand, on stand-alone stories, I always, ''always'' tries to avoid this, but fails. It keeps swinging between this and PurpleProse. I feel sad.

The reason why I'll never take myself seriously as a writer.

This troper has not written a book. This trope is the reason why. He's getting better.

This troper is a fan of clean, straight-to-the-point writing. He can't write otherwise. Actually, not that bad because this style of writing is ''much better'' for writing documentation and technical papers (which he does more often than writing literature).

And ''this'' troper has, more than once, accidentally created plotholes in roleplays simply by not being detailed enough. Oh yeah, and it's physically impossible for her to write PurpleProse.

This troper is fairly good at describing things in her actual writing...but when it comes to actually ''describing'' my writing to others, I can't. This is how I summarized what I consider my best work so far: #QUOTE#''Ghosts: A short horror story. A psychologist has a session with a quiet young girl. Not everything is what it seems... '' #QUOTE#Are you excited yet?

I have never once written prose that could be considered 'purple', partially because when I write, I tend to envision perfectly the image I want to convey. Thus, I don't describe as much as another person would when approaching the same situation. However, when talking, [[{{AttentionDeficitOohShiny}}

I don't remember writing this... I overdescribe everything and zigzag from subject to subject, and tend to either bore or confuse people out of listening]]

This Troper does a lot of writing, and for the most part avoids this sort of thing; but when he does do it, it always comes out as sarcastic, somehow. In essence, he manages to combine this with Lemony Narrator, in..a weird mix.

This Troper can write PurpleProse, but finds that he can't be bothered anymore. Nobody reads descriptions. They just slow the plot down. He loved the Amber series for the BeigeProse therein.

Oh god, I feel ''so'' good knowing that I'm not the onyl Beige Prose User here! I rarely use anything like similies or metaphors, Character descriptions usually are their own paragraph that is clinical in its detail, and I have trouble carrying on without a little dialog. It's mainly because I'm paranoid of going into stupidly melodramatic PurpleProse, so I tend to go the other way...

I tried to write purple prose once, and I hated it. I stick to beige prose and find other ways to make it interesting.

I have two writing styles. One, for essays and short descriptive sketches, borders on PurpleProse. The other, for everything else, falls under this category.

I now used this to describe my own personal philosophies (catch phrases to be exact). I once used Purple Prose, but it fried my mind.

Beige Prose is omnipresent in my writting. Oddly, my papers usually wind up too long and I have to cut out lots of content. I have to be careful to purge enough material so that I am fairly below the page limit; I must then mentally force myself to write longer sentences, kinda like this one.

This troper's prose tends to be very beige, mostly because he's not poetic enough for PurpleProse. He tries to dress it up with Lemony Narration, so his writing tends to come off as Deadpan Snark.

This is my main weakness as a writer. I'm good at dialogue and plots, and ''very'' good at world-building, but not so good at description.

My writing style through and through. Possibly influenced by Dickens and the like. I loathe PurpleProse.

This troper has a bit of a problem navigating between purple and beige prose. Sometimes, he veers too far into the purple side of things, creating descriptions of "the cold, dying expanse stretching like the sky over the horizon", and then follows it up with beige prose "He stabbed the man and said, 'You're dead'". Too far towards beige and the prose becomes a touch boring and uninteresting, too far towards purple and the prose becomes BANANAS

This troper answers most questions like this. It makes english assignments EXTREMELY annoying, where it's 40% content, 60% padding.

My English class had an assignment where we broke up into groups, and each group got part of a scene from JuliusCaesar to reduce to text-speak. Yes, whole speeches reduced to text messages. Best. Shakespeare project. Ever. My favorite part: #QUOTE#'''Brutus:''' luv 4 Caesar < luv 4 Rome. Caesar = bad, so I kill him. R U :-(?

AuthorFilibuster time: I will defend BeigeProse to the death. It is not boring, it is not a sign of weakness as a writer and it only shows a lack of imagination if it is badly handled. Brevity is wit. Think of Hemingway's iceberg theory, which, boiled down to basics, says that we need only see the tip of the iceberg to know that it is there, i.e. emotions are at their most effective when left to the reader's interpretation besides a small hint. The best example I can think of is two versions of a Raymond Carver short story named "Gazebo." In the story, Dwayne cheats on his wife, Holly. Compare this exchange, from the orginal, unedited version: #QUOTE# ''"Even a while ago, when we were making love, you were thinking of her," Holly goes, as she returns from the bathroom.'' #QUOTE# ''"Duane, this is hurtful." She takes the drink I give her.'' #QUOTE# ''"Holly," I go.'' #QUOTE# ''"No, it's true, Duane." She walks up and down the room in her underpants and bra with the drink in her hand. "You've gone outside the marriage. It's our trust you've broken. Maybe that sounds old fashioned to you. I don't care. Now I just feel like, I don't know what, like dirt, that's what I feel like. I'm confused. I don't have a purpose anymore. You were my purpose."'' #QUOTE# See that quote from Holly that takes up the final section? Any one or two sentences from that would make the point fine on its own, but as it is, it's completely overselling itself and comes across like something from a Mills & Boone novel. #QUOTE# Now, here's the same passage after Carver's editor Gordon Lish got his hands on it: #QUOTE# ''"Even a while ago, when we were doing it, you were thinking of her," Holly goes.'' #QUOTE# ''"Duane, this is hurtful."'' #QUOTE# ''"Holly," I go.'' #QUOTE# ''"It's true, Duane," she goes. "Just don't argue with me," she goes.'' #QUOTE# No outpour of grief, no proselytizing, just a short rebuttal: Holly doesn't need to go into detail about ''why'' "it" is true, because Duane already knows, and so does the reader. By not spelling it out, we have a much more emotionally charged response and one of the best examples of Hemingway's Iceberg that I've ever come across.