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Did journalism erode my writing?
In the past I wrote with more poetry, more words of interest, more recklessness in my sentence structures. I think I've internalized so many rules of journalism that I no longer form those long winding sentences that include the word "effusive; nor do I have the same way of conveying that I'm talking a little quick and then interrupting myself with a sly wink of a question to the listener. My commas are sparing, my phrases less well-turned and more often just excluded, and my words are chosen now not for how they make me sound but for the purpose they serve as content.
Am I still the same person who could even think to write "idiot syncratic," a two-word combination that strikes me only now as brilliant? Questionable. Yes, I still fervently assert how flimsy my future is, despite this sentiment having gone out of style with my peer group's inauguration into the office of real life, but I am assuredly now on at least a three-year plan, only barely over half as ambitious as either of the Five Year Plans but seeming at times to be just as lofty in its ultimate goal of modernization.
In the past I wrote with more poetry, more words of interest, more recklessness in my sentence structures. I think I've internalized so many rules of journalism that I no longer form those long winding sentences that include the word "effusive; nor do I have the same way of conveying that I'm talking a little quick and then interrupting myself with a sly wink of a question to the listener. My commas are sparing, my phrases less well-turned and more often just excluded, and my words are chosen now not for how they make me sound but for the purpose they serve as content.
Am I still the same person who could even think to write "idiot syncratic," a two-word combination that strikes me only now as brilliant? Questionable. Yes, I still fervently assert how flimsy my future is, despite this sentiment having gone out of style with my peer group's inauguration into the office of real life, but I am assuredly now on at least a three-year plan, only barely over half as ambitious as either of the Five Year Plans but seeming at times to be just as lofty in its ultimate goal of modernization.