Its also very comfortable when you're using vim or vim-emulation plugin in another editor.
Writing one sentence per line
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#22This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences.…
"We need to vary the lengths of our sentences. Sometimes short. Sometimes long."
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#23As a fan of Proust I feel he already did that but not in the way Derek intended.
It's more like "One sentence per page(s) — https://nathanbrixius.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/the-five-long...
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#24Such, errr, ‘giants’ as BBC evidently already adhere to this advice, and others follow in their step. Though I suspect that the motivation is different.
I was going to say this. New reporting has denigrated to two sentence paragraphs. It is ridiculous.
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#25Is this why HN joins consecutive lines?
This is on line 2.
And this is on line 4.
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#26Maybe this is the right thread to ask for help:
I am looking for resources on the technical aspects of creative writing. Like this post. Or as mentioned below, on using semantic line breaks https://sembr.org/
I am trying to improve my creative writing style but most what I find on Google is about the creative aspect and not about the technical aspect.
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#27And it makes git diff pretty.
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#28I approach this by separating writing from editing. Just keep writing, ignore the typos, self-censorship or formatting and keep moving. So, I've build myself an app to make that easier. Essentially, it's just a more stupid version of a text box. It's free, it's private, and it's meant to put you in the state of flow. I've been using it every day for the past 3 years or so and I know that some people find it useful to…
Similar idea I made a few years ago. A text editor with no editing allowed and lets you export to Word/MD/HTML for later editing
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#29I approach this by separating writing from editing. Just keep writing, ignore the typos, self-censorship or formatting and keep moving. So, I've build myself an app to make that easier. Essentially, it's just a more stupid version of a text box. It's free, it's private, and it's meant to put you in the state of flow. I've been using it every day for the past 3 years or so and I know that some people find it useful to…
>I approach this by separating writing from editing. Just keep writing, ignore the typos, self-censorship or formatting and keep moving.
You've (re)discovered the old adage: write drunk, edit sober.
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#30I write one sentence per line as well, but use line wrapping to make it more readable during writing. Reading long sentences on a single line is unpleasant imho.
I‘ll try switching from line wrap to full display to get a better picture of the overall structure.
If the structure is easy to recognize I would probably prefer a simple model that tells me a good line length for the current line I‘m in, e.g. a simple writing plugin for the editor of choice.