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Happy new year for those who live in my time zone. I wish for those who had no time to write novels in this previous year to write a lot...

I am surprised they didn't make you into a mod yet.

You've overworked your way into roasting my heart. ? ? Happy Moolentines day.

That' subjective. You didn't enjoy The Hobbit. I did. The book was written supremely well. That doesn't mean it was going to - or was...

Ah, see there? That inserted shift away from consequence to intent inside the dashes? It's within the sentence rather than its own to...

I feel a blend of punctuation creates a properly-flowing story. Em-dashes have their place. You just need to find where they fit over a...

I use them. — instead of ; I like Em dashes more. I got used to them. The magic alt + 0151 is so deeply ingrained into my brain that...

They aren't bad, just archaic. Semicolons, parentheses, and commas have replaced them entirely in modern writing, so when you use them...

The first of many, hopefully. Come do the "the badger's going to be rich soon" dance with me!

I agree, that the "anti ellipsis" crowd is wrong. Yet, you have to imagine. My little example of my ellipsis problem? You have no idea...

I developed my own bad habits, because I was trying to capture the dialog in my head, and I wanted the dramatric pause where I heard it...

Thank you for taking my feedback with good grace! I have to say: don't outsource the work of becoming a writer to AI. It won't teach...

Thanks for the feedback. Initially, I couldn't wrap my head around this because I write as my head narrates. All the AI I asked said I...

OP. We all been there. I was castigated (practically castrated, lol) for my "tense" shifting. And I was roasted for my (too) many...