12:50pm on July 28, 2024.
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source: {'title': 'Heart-smitten with that desire of wandering and looking on new things', 'creator': 'McKinley Valentine', 'published': datetime.date(2022, 7, 6), 'publication': 'The Whippet', 'url': 'https://thewhippet.org/150-heartsmitten-desire-of-wandering/', 'text': 'Writing online—where the barrier to people responding to you is very low—tends\nto make people slightly worse writers because you always have the voice of the\nmost pedantic reader in your head, so you go with the unassailable generic over\nthe specific, or you dilute the impact of a strong sentence by adding a bunch of\ndisclaimers to head off commenters. Presumably the bigger your audience, the\nstronger the effect.', 'wordcount': 70, 'html': 'Writing online—where the barrier to people responding to you is very low—tends\nto make people slightly worse writers because you always have the voice of the\nmost pedantic reader in your head, so you go with the unassailable generic over\nthe specific, or you dilute the impact of a strong sentence by adding a bunch of\ndisclaimers to head off commenters. Presumably the bigger your audience, the\nstronger the effect.
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via: {'title': 'Being a Very Online Advice-Giver Has Made My Writing Worse', 'creator': 'Jane Friedman', 'url': 'https://janefriedman.substack.com/p/being-an-advice-giver-makes-my-writing-worse'}
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title: McKinley Valentine, Heart-smitten with that desire of wandering and looking on new things, The Whippet, 2022
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