On Writing

Blogging (even as badly as I'm doing it) has given me a lot of insight into the editing process.

The simplest thing that always makes your writing better is rewriting to say the same damn thing with less words.

a lot of insight into the editing process

turns into

insight into editing

Nobody really cares about tenses, just pick the least wordy one.

I do like parenthetical asides. Sometimes I have more ideas to say and no natural place to put them. Plus it's like a little shout-out to David Foster Wallace. Also it feels like breakcore, tossing off phrase fragments. I'm in a very breakcore mood nowadays.

This blog would be better if I edited more. But I'm afraid anything unfun will break the positive feedback loop that makes me blog. Or maybe just lazy.