embed your references
Mason recently emailed me saying that my writing style and thought process would suit a book well. I'm glad I asked for more specific feedback because he soon delivered.
He resumed non-fiction after a few years' absence with Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism. Compared to the separation of academic inline references (like "(Author, creation year)") and appendices (with entries like "1. Author, Creation year, date accessed, link"), he noticed how similar the prosaic flow of Newport's references was to my own. Take this example that Mason shared from my recent post, when to post:
I post pieces that fit this space once I made them compelling enough to post. You might require a simpler mechanism though. You could try a randomizer like Maximus did for Thanks for your delicate response or live out Sivers' Hell Yeah or No rule:
Compared to separated references and even footnotes, I believe that sculpting paragraphs with sufficient context near each reference makes them much more portable and natural to read. Presenting links next to their ideas and details mitigates jumping around to find information, visit complementary pages, or copy text and links for quoting.
To be fair, those boons might detract from or not matter with the academic writing Mason does for school. However, I'm not writing long papers with supplementary information that can be stowed away in their cabooses. I'm posting on the interactive Internet, where curious souls like you enjoy peeping into whatever cool links you find. Why would I submerge them below their context when I don't have to?