One way to keep sentences short is to keep the space between them as empty as possible.
I don't mean the space between the period at the end of one sentence and the first word of the next.
I mean the space between the period and the subject …
You've been taught to believe that short sentences are childish,
Merely a first step toward writing longer sentences.
You'd like to think your education has carried you well past short sentences.
But you've been delivered into wilderness of false assumptions and bad habits,
A desert of …
Short sentences aren't hard to make.
The difficulty is forcing yourself to keep them short.
There are innumerable ways to write badly.
The usual way is making sentences that don't say what you think they do.
Which can the reader possibly believe?
Your sentences or …
It provides some sort of primal verification: you are in print; therefore you exist. Who knows what the urge is all about, to appear somewhere outside yourself, instead of feeling stuck inside your muddled but stroboscopic mind, peering out like a little under sea animal – a spiny blenny, for …