An illustrated excerpt from Gary Provost’s 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing
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I saw this clipping from a book when browsing threads one day.*
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This 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 …
I’m no writer, but I am more pedantic about writing than most. Growing up homeschooled does that to you. So when I saw this I thought YES. FINALLY. Somebody giving clear advice on how to make your writing not feel like corpo-chatgipitty slop. Save. Scroll.
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Some time later I still thought about that post. It’s a nice idea, but how would I actually write that way in practice? The colors were so pretty in the picture, but no editor highlights sentences like that. Right? right?…
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I use Obsidian. I can go off about how I use Obsidian later, but I use it. And I know that Obsidian is super customizable, like ridiculously customizable. It has a whole community plugin store where anybody can throw together a little code and change any aspect of the app, from a…
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A few evenings of messing around and ta-fricken-da I had myself a plugin.
For a first-time Obsidian plugin dev, I’m happy with it. I knew I wouldn’t make something perfect on the first go but I did want to make it good. The toggle is contained to individual tabs. It doesn’t change any of your source text. The colors are fully customizable, sentence len…
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https://tangled.org/tynanpurdy.com/musical-text
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[READ-ONLY] Mirror of https://github.com/tynanpurdy/musical-text. Encourage writing with rhythm by highlighting sentences according to wordcount.