>if I write short sentences, people will think I'm a serious journalist
>if I write in greentext, people will think I'm insightful
I write medium sentences because I'm scared of trying too hard in either direction.
>>25235670>If I will critique nonsenselessly people will think I'm an intellectual t. not op.
>>25235668What are you talking about? JD didn’t particularly favour short sentences.
>>25235675>I write medium sentences because I'm scared of trying too hard in either direction.Just have a consistent thinking line and stop fearing illogically. Fear only when you can have a concrete reason to do so after you have measured it logically and through your immediate sense-perception.
>>25235670fpbp
>>25235720>nonsenselesslyNonsensically*
>>25235670>total OP rape
>>25235668She looks similar to that Today show co-host. Are they related?
>>25235720>can't into metaHe did post in greentext so was applying the statement to himself as well as OP; acknowledgement of his response being no better than OP which reinforces the truth of the statement through self reference. It is recursive.
>>25235670brutal
>>25236840literally who
>>25235670Trying to think of a recovery from this but it's just not possible without sounding mad/threadt not op
>>25236873Not spoonfeeding you, moron
>>25235668If you like Joan Didion check out Eve Babitz. Basically the same thing at the same time but Eve is a tad more in with celebrities than Didion since she was a straight up socialite. She writes a lot about seeing stars of the 50s and 60s strung out on heroin, sometimes finding them dead
>>25235670btfo
>>25235675That's gay. You're gay.
>poses with cigarette to seem hip
>>25237373It wasn't hip back then it was just more likely that you had a lit cigarette than not
>>25237357Yes. It is best to have a variety based on the situation and what effect you want to produce. But, I shall continue to be gay because I had a dream about sucking a boy's penis and it was quite pleasant.
Diddy-in or Diddy-on
>>25235675i could see it being a fun exercise to let the length of sentences be a constraint on the ideas being conveyed, but generally I think sentence length should just be determined by what the idea warrants
>>25235668then you'll hate hemmingway
>>25237928Sentence length is not really a constraint on idea, it mostly affects the experience of reading, severe limit on the complexity of rhythm you can develop. It will change how you present idea but you will quickly adapt to that; as an exercise I would say its primary worth is in developing your understanding of subtext and paragraph, you will rely on them more.
>>25235668I only write either absurdly long sentences, the kind that you have to run back and check when it started and whether there's a period somewhere, or else, I write sentences of five words or less. It's variation.
>>25237373Smoking is cool. Get with it.
I have decided I won't touch this author 1. because she looks and sounds annoying as fuck 2. because she's being peddled like crazy everywhere 3. the last thing we need is more American literature that serves no purpose other than "Look how good/bad America is".
>>25235668her novel play it as it lays was the only worthwhile thing she wrote imo
>>25238727Give the essay Slouching Towards Bethlehem a chance if you want to understand how we got here.https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/06/didion/
imagine if she got feminist married to nathan fillion
>>25240184you sound spooked and raped
I always assumed that Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man" was actually about Didion. I thought he simply changed the sex to make it more universal. Her profile of Joan Baez read like the silent generation resenting all of the changes going on.
