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Admittedly, we might be a bit biased,
but we won’t apologize (and we certainly won’t use parentheses to apologize!).
In fiction writing, parentheses are used
mainly to provide additional, nonessential...
Oh, the irony!
Puns aside, hyphens can change the
entire meaning of a sentence and are really the one form of punctuation that does
matter. Well, kind of. More on that later. For now, let’s review a couple
of...
Ellipsis…
and Other Words You Don’t Know
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abecedarian. You know what that means? No? Ha!
An
ellipsis—plural form: ellipses—is a set of three dots that triggers a break in
fiction writing. The primary...
Because there are em dashes! Get it? …No? So much for our education systems. Let me explain.
Before we can discuss the uses of dashes in fiction writing, we must first describe hyphens, en dashes, and...
Colonoscopies, on the other hand…
Colons are surprisingly useful—unlike
parentheses. However, you should still be careful in how often you use colons.
By definition, a colon is a punctuation
mark that...