Quoting McKinley Valentine, Heart-smitten with that desire of wandering and looking on new things, The Whippet, 2022

Writing online—where the barrier to people responding to you is very low—tends to make people slightly worse writers because you always have the voice of the most pedantic reader in your head, so you go with the unassailable generic over the specific, or you dilute the impact of a strong sentence by adding a bunch of disclaimers to head off commenters. Presumably the bigger your audience, the stronger the effect.

— McKinley Valentine, Heart-smitten with that desire of wandering and looking on new things, The Whippet, 2022 (via)

12:50pm on July 28, 2024.


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