> since most authors seem to regard such text as unnecessarily harsh on their readers. To push back on this, following convention is often the easy thing to d

> since most authors seem to regard such text as unnecessarily harsh on their readers. To push back on this, following convention is often the easy thing to do (so not something regarded versus defaulted to). There's a literary history of form influencing story; there was even a story about a famous example of this on HN recently that discussed this year's Nobel laureate—who notably publishes long novels that play with punctuation conventions: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/against-high-brodernism/ https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/against-high-brodernism/