FYI, you likely will have already realized but when I get really excited about things (and let's hope I am continually engaged with and inspired/struck in some other way by what I am writing {aka "excited"} in this blog, as for me that is important. I don't want to write something hollow or lifeless and I wouldn't ask anyone to read it if I did) I tend to go on and on and use buttloads (does this come from boatloads? It tried to correct it to this... Hmm.) of parentheses.
So I will give you some tips, if you'd like to read my blog, for dealing with my madness. So first, to make it a bit easier to read, I try to use different kinds of parentheses to differentiate them, ex: ( ), { }, [ ], especially when I use one set of parentheses inside another set.
Also it can be very helpful, since they are such long sentences, when you are done with one set of parentheses, to look back and re-read what went just before that set of parentheses, then skip what's within the parentheses, and keep reading. This will help it all make sense.
Here's a short example (Pretend the following example is out of a children's book; it seems less mad that way): If I wrote,
"The duck (who needed to see the doctor {but wasn't up for going today} ) met his friends at the park."
It would help understanding to go back after reading and re-read "The duck met his friends at the park."While writing this, have been thinking about the fact already stated, that when I'm excited about what I'm writing I tend to go on and on and use buttloads of parentheses. Upon analysis, it makes more and more sense to me. In speech, when excited/ highly engaged/ enthralled about something, people tend to go on and on. So, I am writing this as I would speak it. However, to help it make sense and all tie together in the written form, I use parentheses as a tool. I enjoy analysis. Can you tell? :D
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