A completely unscientific experiment

So in the interest of exploring our own writing, and better understanding the relationship between how we write and how we think--I propose an experiment.

For one week, we'll volunteer to eschew our normal voice and our favorite words and our best tricks that we rely on all the time, in our AW posts.

The catch is--we don't get to say what those tricks are. The other people playing get to TELL us what they are, based on our posting history. The point is to develop and explore our individual relationships with our words, and also to get an idea for how others perceive our writing in general terms.

We'd sign up to play here in this thread, and discuss amongst ourselves what should be off-limits for each of us, and what some of the viable alternative techniques might be. For example, someone with a tendency towards long complex sentences with big words might experiment with sentences no longer than ten words, and words no longer than two syllables--and vice versa.

This is strictly for fun and education and working on our chops as writers.



You guys game?

I had a terrible head injury years ago, Dave, when I was hit by a penny some mook flung from the Eiffel Tower. I haven't slept since.

Although, the Batman thing is fun. I might switch to using that as my reason. What's your excuse?

Then it will be a good lesson in control, Zach.

Also, I don't have any tricks.

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I figure today we'll hash out what we think people rely on, and what the alternatives are, and start in the morning. That gives us an entire weekend of posting without our standard tools.