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Since the rise of ILE I have almost stopped writing long-form pieces. Re-reading some of my old longer stuff I think this has coincided with a slide in the quality of my writing, too. But of course I love ILE dearly.

Have you found this happening to you? And what are the advantages and disadvantages of the single-author piece as against the communal back-and-forth of debate?

― Tom, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Oh god! I should dig up and post my paper I gave at an academic conference in 1996 about how on-line back and forth debate was going to change the way we thought about writing and reading texts. ;-)

As I see it -- me on my own: my own merry, lengthy ramble. Me here: more prone to quick posts. I think it's just a matter of tailoring your approach to the appropriate forum rather than a self-conscious stylistic shift.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I was about to start something about it. The disadvantages of debate are that I'm never going to get paid for it. I could have written lots of stuff for Losing Today, not that they deserve it, but I've said alot of it here. And I couldnt be arsed re-writing it.

― Ronan, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I am pretty dubious about my writing long or short, so I don't think the "quality" has suffered much either way. I should try something longer, only because I haven't for so long and it would be interesting to see how it turned out.

― Nicole, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I talk quick and fast. On my blog its rarely over a page as well. But i just finished a 15 page paper on Greenberg so , come on ILE is not as rigously academic as uni. But it is more intellectaul. It requires you to be quick witted and witty polymath.

― anthony, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I've never been a man of words. My internet connection also manages to click off when I'm typing, so it's a fearsome battle against the clock.

― jel, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

four years pass...

One thing that keeps me suspicious of blogs is that they are less about interaction than messageboards.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 9 September 2006 20:51 (twenty years ago)

That's the one thing that always keeps me from writing (or continuing to write) blogs. You need to do it a long time before you'll get any chance of a meaningful response/community interaction. You just have to keep pitching it out into the void. Same thing for writing for (traditional) publications though, I suppose, although at least there you get the satisfaction of seeing your writing in print.

― g00blar (gooblar), Saturday, 9 September 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

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