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Should I change my name y/npic.twitter.com/scdtyEylRu
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It’s been hard to read other books for a while now. As I read, my mind keeps going to either “ah, this is nice, will people be so engrossed in my book?” or “this is so much better than what I’ve done.”
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Then, I keep pausing to write down new ideas, or places to rewrite, or turns of phrases to steal.
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And even without any of the above, I keep noticing typographical or typesetting details, and wondering about those, too.
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(For example, I am trying to read “A burglar’s guide to the city” and just spent 5 minutes wondering whether these decorative paragraph breaks were cute or not, as my eyes blindly followed sentences without my brain registering anything.)pic.twitter.com/IenJVeJlm3
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Replying to @mwichary
It’ll mess with you even more when you try and see if there is a word for those decorative paragraph breaks...or even when there’s just a space there. In publishing there seems to be names for everything...but that.
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Replying to @mwichary
Not exactly because you can have paragraphs without that gap or special character. It’s more like a “scene break” and often in books it’s a character at the end of the page but a space (like a triple line break) mid page
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I think I’ve seen selective pilcrows, but I agree it’s not the same. It’s almost like an alternative to a headline – but without a title. (We called it section break at Medium, iirc.)
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