Are run-on sentences as hard to read as they are to write intentionally? My goal is to write a sentence so long that the reader, who likely is holding their breath until the end of the sentence because that's what a lot of people do when they read, passes out. Harmless fun, they'll come to eventually, a bit groggy and disorientated, but none the worse for wear. I never take advantage of their unconscious minds. I even stop writing to give them time to recover, then short sentences.
@Jeber there is a chapter in Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis which is a guy describing what he did for a whole year. It’s not really a run on sentence, but it does read like someone telling you something on cocaine.
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The Jack Kerouac School of personal journalism? The 50s were a time of jazz, beat, poetry, acknowledging the mundane, the normal. On the Road was a guidebook to less than half of its audience. Cool to read about, hard to accomplish. Conversely, not every life is of interest to the masses. Lives of quiet desperation.
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@Chriskorvela
I can relate too well to the coke reference.
I told my doctor what I need is a safe and legal substitute for coke.
I love to write, and I write best on coke. But I'm old and coke is still expensive and all my old contacts are long gone and a continent away. So no coke.
My stimulation to write is a little stronger when I'm stoned over when I'm straight, but most of the time I am straight. Drug-free except for caffeine.
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