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Nice article! I can see how that can make writing more fun. At risk of being one of the nitpickers; I do quite enjoy reading caveats, also sidebars if either e
by codeptualize 5y ago
Nice article! I can see how that can make writing more fun.
At risk of being one of the nitpickers; I do quite enjoy reading caveats, also sidebars if either entertaining or informative. Very much agree that it should only be done if it benefits the story. I would say you strike a nice balance in your article haha.
- wombatmobile 5y ago> At risk of being one of the nitpickers; I do quite enjoy reading caveats Caveats are sometimes in order. Other times not. It depends...
- codeptualize 5y agohaha nice caveat ;), fully agree!
- chriswarbo 5y agoI've found I spend too much time on caveats and 'sidebars', which slows down my writing; the resulting text also gets too meandering and hard to follow, so I'll spend even longer trying to improve it; then it gets too dense; and so on. The article's advice seems useful, so I may apply some of it to my growing mountain of 'unfinished' posts. One thing I like to do is add HTML <details> elements for caveats or interesting tangents; these don't break up the main flow too much, their contents can be written pretty much separately from the main post, and they can be added/amended later if desired (e.g. if we find out something new and want to update an old post)