## Metadata - Author: [[Clive Thompson]] - Full Title: What I Learned About My Writing by Seeing Only the Punctuation - Category: #articles - URL: https://medium.com/p/efd5334060b1 ## Highlights - when you look at those writers’ punctuation, you can see, in a quick glance, how different they are. - Tags: [[favorite]] - It made me realize I cram my writing with lots of digressions; which is probably related to my thirsty desire to seem so very smart and clever; which itself stems from some intellectual neediness I am able to keep partially — but not entirely — in check; and which also likely explains why I often chain many many phrases together with semicolons, as if I were some Victorian dude peering through his steampunk monocle while cranking out pay-per-word pieces for The Strand. (But I digress.)