Joanna Young recently posed the question “In 30 words or less … What does powerful writing mean to you?” on her Confident Writing Blog. I have been pondering this interesting challenge for a short while and initially I came up with:

“Powerful writing is expressing an important thing in the fewest, clearest, most emotive and compelling words possible.”

However, since pondering it even more I have simplified it to:

“Powerful writing reflects the heart, mind and soul”.

You can read more about this open challenge at:
http://www.confidentwriting.com/2008/04/what-does-power.html