dear Past Me, please stop using such weird punctuation

[edenfalling]

Chapter 6 of "The Guardian in Spite of Herself" (revised version) is now up on AO3. :D

Chapter 16 is inching along. I yanked Yukiko and Seichi back from a conversational dead end (and un-contradicted myself in the process, which was a nice side benefit) and they are now set up to actually talk about what I WANT them to talk about. So, you know, things progress. *wry*

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[edenfalling]

A very interesting article! I am a firm believer in the serial (or Oxford) comma, but aside from that I lean more toward punctuation by ear -- at least in fiction. I make a special editing pass through every story I write specifically to weed out extraneous commas, since they seem to sprout like particularly pernicious weeds when I'm not paying attention and I hate the way they interrupt the flow of the narrative. (I sometimes punctuate the living daylights out of nonfiction, though, because dammit I want to be clear.)