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	Chunky over Smooth
	January 19th, 2018
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	This phost is not about peanut butter,
	but about plain text.
	I recently read a blog post [0]
	shared by dbucklin [1]
	over on the #gopher channel on irc.sdf.org
	about writing text that breaks text
	into chunks of semantic ideas or sentences.
	While it seems to make the text a bit longer
	it really does help with readability
	as well as version controll diffs
	and even editing.

	As I've been writing this phost
	I've been moving sentences around
	either in part or in whole.
	Having a period always at the end of a line
	and sentences always begin on a new line
	is remarkably helpful.
	There is a bit of a congative disconnect
	while I adjust to breaking up my text
	in a way that doesn't feel as natural
	as my writing style normally is,
	but that can be attributed to it being new
	and my forced attention on the style
	to ensure I'm doing it properly.
	Even now,
	as I end this second paragraph
	the technique is becoming more natural in flow.

	I'd like to know
	whether this format
	makes things more difficult for you to read
	or makes it easier to scan.
	Please send me an email,
	a toot on mastodon,
	or a phlog reply
	with your thoughts.

	I see this as an easy way to
	author my markdown blogs,
	since the natural formatting of markdown
	will ride these paragarphs into a single block.
	Writing this way for drafts
	also makes a lot of sense.
	I'm really only concerned about
	using it in its broken--almost poetry-like--format
	in a medium like gopher
	where people will read it this way,
	or in my books
	where I will want to
	eventually refomat things into manuscript form
	with clear dialogue formatting
	and section breaks.

	I think I'll give this a try for a while.


	[0] One sentence per line
	[1] dbucklin