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you may notice that i and many people around here write entirely in lowercase this is not an affectation i mean, it might be for some, but i do it because it helps me take myself sufficiently less seriously that i can be more easily creative

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· Dec 28, 2021

i wrote a thing it's about how writing in lowercase has done magical, inexplicable things for my creative output ungated.media/article/lowerc

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

for me i think it accesses a different kind of writing in the following very specific way: lowercase = chatting with my middle school friends, proper capitalization = homework

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@ungatedcreative

lol yep. that's pretty much my whole thesis for why it feels so energetically different, and rather subversive, to write in lowercase

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

ayyy you're speaking my language here 🥳 reminds me of this too (please forgive me if you happen to quote or link this elsewhere in your piece)

poetryfoundation.org

The Average Fourth Grader Is a Better Poet Than… | Poetry Foundation

While in graduate school at the University of Houston, I supplemented my income by working as a writer in residence for Writers in the Schools (WITS). I was with WITS...

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@ungatedcreative

holy shit, i'd never read this before but it's incredible! 🙏

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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the examples are spectacular and the last sentence is also spectacular, i come back to this periodically and it's good every time

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