“Shelly was mortified. Can it be simpler? xxx18 Whenever you use one, you’re relying on your reader to infer from the context what it’s referencing. With this in mind, I drafted a few points I thought it would be worth sharing on the thread, and that drafting process produced enough words that I thought it would be better just to publish them as an essay. “Shelly was mortified. So, as someone who likes to think they know a thing or two about words, I thought providing a few bits of general writing advice might be a constructive response to the whole affair. I don’t really have a conclusion or anything, I just wanted to help a fellow author be the best they could be and it got a little out of hand.
