#WritersCoffeeClub 16. Must writing always [be] in complete sentences? Unusual syntax?
i've seen books experiment with syntax but this is one of those things, like punctuation, where innovation often costs more than it gains. if you're going to deliberately make your sentences hard to understand, there had better be some kind of payoff in proportion to the difficulty. otherwise you're wasting everyone's time.
i'm generally tolerant of sentence fragments (incomplete sentences) so long as they're not overused. they can come across as melodramatic and adolescent when there are too many in a row.
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