And of course what exactly counts as “long” or “short” isn’t completely agreed on.
You know the advice where authors are told they should be as brief as possible? Cut out any unnecessary words. Keep it simple. Everything short. Easy. Yes? No? How did this paragraph sound? We talk about this very topic.
Question 125 – Use short words, sentences, and paragraphs. Do you agree or disagree, and why?
Exclusively? No. You need variation in your sentence length, or your writing will sound monotonous.
Only if you are writing for children. I assume my audience to be thinking adults with at least average IQ, probably even educated. If they can’t handle a word like existential or thermodynamic, they aren’t going to understand my stories anyway.
If this was a law, I would be in jail for life. I have to consciously control the amount of dashes in my work — lest I end up with six…
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