You know how everyone has his or her own writing style and idiosyncrasies? The chief one of my own that I’ve identified are short sentences. Yeah. I constantly fight the urge to cut my writing into many, brief parts. Look back at my entries. I think--when I’m tempted--that short sentences will make this tremendous impact. Perhaps they do. But not if you do it constantly. Then it just gets annoying. Like the writer is trying too hard. And this is not to say that I’ve found my one and only writing flaw. That’s laughable. And I haven’t even talked it over with my editorial-minded or writing friends and relative. Notice I said ‘relative’, Dorcas. Do you put that comma inside or outside the single quote? Not that I don’t have some other relatives that write well. Not saying that. I’ll stop now.
the by-log
A log of the days and times of Byran Smucker: a happily-married, left-handed, tenor-singing, fair-thinking, Jesus-believing, familyandfriendsandchurchandfootballandbasketball-loving, graduate student in Statistics and Operations Research at Penn State, who’s a Mennonite to boot.


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