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dozens edited this page Feb 15, 2025
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Semantic Linefeeds: https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2012/one-sentence-per-line/
Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn't work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they're done they're done.
- Kurt Vonnegut
In particular, I've created shell scripts for catching three problems: abuse of the passive voice, weasel words, and lexical illusions.