[raynr]

The point about the effects defensive writing has on writing quality resonates. Writing is a big part of my work and I've begun to realise that I write defensively - spending time couching things in a context, inserting caveats everywhere, going on asides to deal with potential challenges - it makes for a terribly long and meandering read, whatever point I had to make buried beneath shields of parentheses and moats of footnotes.

Unfortunately, I don't see how to escape it, at least for me that's just the nature of the work.

Also I use NoScript so the redirect didn't work for me.