One Wank After Another

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A blank assignment is a funny thing, isn't it? When you have it, you don't appreciate it, and when you miss it, it's gone.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Overusing any stylistic and rhetorical device is bad. But "DNW: italics" (or even "DNW: italics for emphasis") isn't simply preventing overuse, it's preventing it altogether. If it's an accessibly issue, obviously that's fair. Otherwise, it's just a silly attempt at DNWing bad writing that's so broad it also catches a lot of things that are not bad writing and it will most likely make bad writing (which sometimes relies on emphasis markers to make sense) worse.

You can do it, of course. But, to paraphrase what you said, writers will have varying opinions about you limiting the stylistic tools they are allowed to use because you think you unlocked the secret to avoiding bad writing.