Escaping One’s Own Shadow
... your dancing will always resemble your walking, because your brain’s activity in one part of the day shapes it in another, especially when it comes to creating sentences. This is a real phenomenon, described by psycholinguists, who call it “structural priming” ... Basically, earlier patterns in what you say or read or write “prime” you to repeat them when you’re acting automatically...
Patterns repeat themselves and you have to work hard to break the patterns that dominate in your writing.
Read the article: Escaping One’s Own Shadow
Thanks to Andrew Wille for flagging the article up on Twitter:
Draft: Escaping One's Own Shadow: how 'structural priming' affects what you write http://nyti.ms/SnuftE
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