It could be a good plan to use a long, run-on sentence; especially if the intent is to convey a train-of-thought-style incoherent mess - however, it's rarely useful, and often times, people forget there are other punctuation marks than commas to make the make-up of the sentence somewhat clearer, instead of just making everything - and I mean everything - look like one, gigantic run-on sentence - something most people can't really properly process anyway, especially if they are untrained or if the sentence is written in a language where this isn't the standard - which begs the question how tenses are implied in Chinese if they don't have verb tenses - perhaps bhamv could enlighten us, which would no doubt be more interesting - and more entertaining! - than looking it up on Wikipedia, which is sometimes quite dry, in my opinion, and tries to be that way to mimic paper encyclopedias for no good reason; making a long sentence isn't necessarily a sign of a good writer though, as I'm sure there are lots of long sentences in books in series like Game of Thrones or Wheel of Time, simply because they are exhaustive and seemingly-endless enumerations of each and every dish in a meal, every flower in the garden, every tree in the forest, or type of mail on a knight in the army - these sentences aren't interesting or funny, merely long and droning, more likely to lull a reader to sleep than to actually inform (which can't be the point, surely, but seems to be so on occasion), a sad state of affairs which can only have come about because of the absolute drought as far as good fantasy writers are concerned these last few years - our own Tinwhistler is perhaps one of the few truly original ones left, but so busy making mead and ordering USB-sticks that he can't be bothered to write a third book in his series "A Touch of Magic" (which I can highly recommend, by the way - it's written quite a bit better than this post is!), a shame for all enthusiasts of the genre and especially those of us who've been waiting for this third installment for years; does "killing off your audience through old age" work as a counterpoint to GRR Martin's "killing off your main characters", or is that me reading too much in simple inertia on the author's side of things, perhaps?
Plus, it's a neat hobby once you've mastered it!
