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231 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 4h \ on: Writers on Writing: Unity of Impression --Poe the_stacker_muse
One of the aspects of internet writing that I particularly enjoy is this necessary adherence to the rule of one sitting.
Brave indeed is the writer who believes he can get his readers to return to a webpage after once having departed.
This may have something to do with unreasoning persistence of the PDF (that godforsaken file format); writers who are uncertain their readers will be able to finish the piece in one sitting (and who doubt their ability to bring a reader back sans something new) resort to attempting to lodge their work on our device, like some thorn stuck in our paw, in the hopes that we will actually read it.
In most cases, it simply should have been shorter.
This makes me wonder what the longest item on SN might be -- and whether incan justify dethroning it.
Brave indeed is the writer who believes he can get his readers to return to a webpage after once having departed.
Yes. And i'll add that we ought to consider ourselves lucky if we have attracted readers willing to give them at least "one sitting."
The architects of infinite scrolling mechanisms seem hell bent on ensuring that we don’t.
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