The harder somebody works at anything the more their writing resembles documentation
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In the case of writers, it’s their writing-about-writing that resembles documentation.
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This is not a good thing. I fact I avoid working hard to avoid this effect.
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One reason I like Asimov is he managed to avoid this curse somehow. Wrote vast amounts of fiction and nonfiction, including explainer nonfiction which is dangerously prone to documentationitis, but avoided sounding like a Manual of Life
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The Buddha thought quite a lot but has the lowest quality docs ever (despite containing great ideas)
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