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English Composition · Chapter 5

The Break Board

Every time you press Enter twice you make a claim about your own thinking: this part is finished, a new part begins. Below is one undivided lump of six hundred-ish characters carrying three separate ideas. Click the marks to break it, then switch where the writing is going to be read — the honest break points stay put, but the right number of them changes.
1 Where will this be read?
2 Break the lump
Draft in lumps, then shape. A break belongs where your thinking turned, not every five sentences. The turns are already in this text — find them by asking, sentence by sentence, “is this still about the same thing?”

Squint at the page

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