EH Lupton on Nostr: #WritersCoffeeClub 3/18: Do you ever use parentheses/brackets in your writing? ...

#WritersCoffeeClub 3/18: Do you ever use parentheses/brackets in your writing?

Sometimes. Usually they get removed or replaced with em dashes in the final draft.

Oddly, both my mom and my thesis advisor (who I think was a bit younger than her, maybe ten years) HATED em dashes. Saw them as intellectual laziness.

But of the few problems with the books she's mentioned, the presence of em dashes hasn't been one, so perhaps Mom's stance has mellowed.

Here's an unpublished example of parentheses.