Thee 5PE

  I recently had the thought of making written content in the old fashioned fifth grade five paragraph essay format. There are several reasons that I think this could be useful as an exercise at least. I also believe that this could serve as a good outlining format for longer pieces. There is also the potential that the format could actually be an enjoyable format that could gain popularity in our quick content, short format, social multi-media landscape. And I'll be using the five paragraph essay format itself to explore it further.

At the very least, returning to a super easy and familiar format of writing, makes the act of writing easer to get started. This is one of the main problems that writers seem to face. It is so simple to get started, it feels almost like freewriting but results in a much more organized and useful piece, and possibly even easier to get flowing. Writing a five paragraph essay is a super easy goal to achieve.

Diving into a subject, or a segment of a subject with a 5PE could do a lot for expanding on ideas for a larger piece. This could manifest in countless ways. For example, an individual 5PE could be a place holder for each chapter or subsection of writing and in that writing process specific areas in need of expansion, and even how they need expanding, are likely to be discovered. Or perhaps it will be discovered that big words are not needed when diminutive ones would suffice.

The 5PE is the obvious logical conclusion (eek) for literature in the new social media world we all live in. It is the quick format of the written word. 5PE could be responsible for a significant increase in reading and writing amongst those who would not be so inclined without such easily approachable pieces available. With hyperlinking and more complex programming languages like HTML and Java, the possibilities on the internet are endless.

Maybe I will live to regret doing this as I can already here the puritan protests that I have contributed to the downfall of society by bringing brain rot to the written format. But if that is true, I'm probably a bit internet famous now, and at least have some people reading my writing, and don't give a flying fuck. Of course the critics are wrong because more participation on either side of literature would be a net good for humanity, obviously.