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writing quirks

writing quirks

My husband peppers his prose with semi-colons. I can’t seem to live without em-dashes and parenthetical asides–must be the way I think. *grin*

How about you? What are your writing quirks?

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  1. Megan says

    September 2, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    Em-dashes, complex sentences, leading conjunctions, and “-ing” words. I shamelessly do not repent of any. πŸ˜€

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    • Rabia says

      September 5, 2011 at 2:03 pm

      *grin* That’s a good attitude to have. πŸ˜€

      Reply
  2. robin says

    September 3, 2011 at 9:34 am

    I use a lot of parentheses and the em-dashes (I’m a very tangential thinker–that’s my excuse, anyway).

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    • Rabia says

      September 5, 2011 at 2:03 pm

      Tangential thinker–I like that!

      Reply
  3. Prue says

    September 8, 2011 at 8:19 am

    I’m addicted to all sorts of punctuation marks: colons; semi-colons; triple dots…(do they have a name?); parentheses; commas – only if correctly placed; hyphens; and I can go a bit overboard, if not being vigilant, with exclamation marks! Oops πŸ˜€

    Have also been known to knowingly split the infinitive.

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    • Rabia says

      September 8, 2011 at 8:47 am

      I think the three dots (…) are called ellipses.

      Reply
  4. Prue says

    September 8, 2011 at 4:18 pm

    Thanks for that Rabia πŸ™‚

    Reply

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