Primary thought (secondary supporting thought [tertiary supporting thought {fucking quaternary supporting thought, we have long since forgotten the primary thought}])

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemmy.today 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

DAE start their parenthetical thought and end up writing full and multiple sentences inside it before returning to the original point?

I try to catch myself and just make a new paragraph when that happens but I'm not always successful.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Guilty, but now I'm considering switching to footnotes¹. They let you express a related thought without disrupting the flow².

¹I blame House of Leaves. Lotta footnotes in there, and they can go a long way before they really get out of hand.

² Sure there are cons, like the fact that the reader has to go to the bottom for context, but there's also no real length limit.

[–] underreacting@literature.cafe 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ooh, I like this. I'm in!

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ooooh! I like how you think!

[–] Tensilespark@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love the way house of leaves does footnotes, it's basically an entire other book crammed into the same space. I still haven't finished it because I keep getting lost...

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm stuck at chapter IX, where flipping forward a bit I know I'm going to have to dedicate a serious reading session to, and I just cannot find the time.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago

yes, but as far as I'm aware I don't necessarily have ADHD? I do have autism, and there's the suspicion I have ADHD, but I don't have a paradoxical reaction to caffeine and also I've not been tested so who the fuck knows anything. My psychiatrist certainly doesn't think testing is necessary.

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