Perfectly following a list of punctuation rules may grant me some kinds of power, but it won’t grant me love.Source: Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
Love doesn’t come from a list of rules—it emerges from the spaces between us, when we pay attention to each other and care about the effect that we have on each other.
When we learn to write in ways that communicate our tone of voice, not just our mastery of rules, we learn to see writing not as a way of asserting our intellectual superiority, but as a way of listening to each other better.
We learn to write not for power, but for love.
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Friday, January 24, 2020
Love > power
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