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Robert C. Worstell's avatar

Longer sentences are fine - if they keep the reader reading. Read them out loud. If they are hard to understand, maybe there's two or more there.

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Ozark Freedom Garden's avatar

Thanks for this. I turned off spell and grammar check today, so that I can write without the continuous interruptions. Yes, I'll turn it back on and my screen will look like a Christmas tree all lit up. But after reading this, perhaps I'll preserve a little more of my real voice. I'm not sure about sentence length, though. My speech tends to run in long sentences. But my AI "editor" thinks I should write like Hemingway. Do the long sentences have to go?

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Barnabas E. Atam's avatar

This is profound

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