Parenthetical full sentences
Since I've been blogging, and especially in the last few months, I find myself using parenthetical full sentences much more than I ever have before. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I hate to overuse a construction, but I have been finding this one really useful to the relatively undisciplined writing style I use in the blog. My blog style has more asides and tangential observations than other kinds of writing I do. In the blog, I'm less inclined to leave out the kitchen sink just because I am writing about the pantry. And when the kitchen sink seems to demand its own paragraph by some standards, yet that separate paragraph would break or confuse the flow, my quick solution is often to enclose the whole bit about the kitchen sink in parentheses and slap it on the end of the paragraph about the pantry.
What do the prose stylists among you think of this? I'm mostly concerned I might be overdoing it. I have not done a survey, but I think I've done it several times in the last week or so, including in the previous entry.
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