MiserablePileOfWords

Miserable Pile Of Words

@MiserablePileOfWords

What is a writer?
A miserable little pile of words!

Call me MP or Miz

Fiction attempted, with various levels of success.

Yes, I do need help, thank you for noticing.

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SpectreWrites
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i'm using a lot of semicolons in these and i gotta be honest i have no idea how you're supposed to use semicolons

caffeinatedOtter
@caffeinatedOtter

Well, there are two schools of thought on semicolons; one involves a set of detailed, technical rules written by exactly the prescriptivist social engineers who also perpetrated shit like "he is correct and neutral for referring to a random person in general", and leads directly to the online peanut gallery who tiresomely answer "wow I don't have the rules memorised for semicolons" with "semicolons are extraneous lol!!!" — and mine is "wow that's too many commas, who wants to be levelled up to a rare shiny punctuation mark, lads?"

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Inumo
@Inumo

Mostly, punctuation is fake. That said, they do have an important use case in lists of lists (A, B, and C; 1, 2, and 3; and alpha, beta, and gamma). Otherwise I just use it whenever a period is too long in the cadence, an en dash too separative, and/or the thought too dependent on juxtaposition.

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