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Texting has destroyed my ability to write!!! Suddenly, I find myself ending sentences in multiple exclamation marks. The shorter the sentence, the better. Ugh. I tried writing an article for a local magazine, but I kept on restarting. I just couldn't get the words to flow. I used to be able to churn out an article or post with ease. Write a few paragraphs on a given subject in passable English? Sure, just give me twenty minutes. And here I am... choppy sentences and all. What happened to me? Recently, I even caught myself thinking in text. The thoughts scrolled in, bit by bit, with a brief interlude to type the words, as though they were coming across a whatsapp chat. Now this has got to stop! There was a little bit of myself, the author in me, that had just started emerging, but since I joined the ranks of smart-phone owners... gone... So here I am, forcing myself to write out a thought in more than the top sentence. I'm not particularly pleased with the piece, but fo