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I love writing for the same exact reason. It’s why I was a technical writer for so long. I took linguistics in college and fell in love with verse and manipulating meaning through connotation and speech. It was just so neat to read that you enjoy the same thing. Words are cool.

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Hmm, maybe I should go into technical writing. My wife’s (really excellent) employer occasionally advertises technical writer positions 🤔

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I would recommend it! I loved it. Didn’t even feel like work. The only reason I left was because I was writing for government contracts and the company was AWFUL.

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I, too, love the editing stage of writing and manipulating words to do the things I want them to.

I read the other piece you linked to, and I liked it a lot. It reflects a lot of my own thoughts--particularly how the doomer types on social media, whether driven by left- or right-wing politics, end up in the same place, with essentially the same conclusions about the world, and it just seems so obvious to me (but of course it isn't to them) how they are spending too much time in their own heads and online (which is almost the same thing), spiralling into self-induced despair.

Also the power and importance of metaphor--yes.

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It does not surprise me to learn that you’re an editing fan, haha.

And yeah, I’m increasingly convinced a large chunk of the world’s problems come from the fact that we all spend too much time in our own heads, whether online or off. Which dovetails with Shannon’s piece above pretty well.

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Haha, yeah, I didn't think you would be.

And I agree with you--and I read Shannon's piece as well. I feel like I keep yelling this at people. And that it's no coincidence that some of the most anxiety-ridden people on my Facebook feed are also the heaviest posters.

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