Re:I Don't Write
by retrac on Monday January 30, 2023 @09:44AM
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Practice without feedback is of little use, at least for certain types of writing.
I tend to write excessively loquacious wandering diatribes with meandering sentences that bounce my readers around with so many twists that they get a concussion and I fail to communicate.
Usually, I do notice when I am at it. But only because it was pointed out so often in college, and by my friends.
Online, I only sometimes realize the replies that seem incoherent are actually coherent - and replying to what I actually said, or reasonably could be interpreted to have said, rather than what I thought I said.
Besides that experience, and the very rare "well written!" or similar, I get no feedback about my writing online.
I tend to write excessively loquacious wandering diatribes with meandering sentences that bounce my readers around with so many twists that they get a concussion and I fail to communicate.
Usually, I do notice when I am at it. But only because it was pointed out so often in college, and by my friends.
Online, I only sometimes realize the replies that seem incoherent are actually coherent - and replying to what I actually said, or reasonably could be interpreted to have said, rather than what I thought I said.
Besides that experience, and the very rare "well written!" or similar, I get no feedback about my writing online.