
Rob Ashton on the Science of Writing
The Informed Life
Is There a Difference Between Short Form Writing and Long Form Writing?
When writing a book, you have time to revise it and reflect on what you've written. With an email or with a text message,. you write it, you send it, gone. And then you have to deal with the consequences. What you wrote is there on their screen. You can't clarify it, but when you see those typing indicator that they're replying, you don't know what they're going to say. That in itself can cause some anxiety. We think we are in a real time conversation. The screen becomes the virtual world and really an extension of our minds. It's kind of by the time the reader reads it, you're long done with it, long
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