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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...

I skimmed your prologue, but it wasn't the kind of thing I like to read so I won't be reading further, but I do have some feedback...

There's a huge difference between disliking AI because what it produces is garbage, and simply disliking AI. I've read thousands of...

As someone who is extremely vocal about the history of em dashes, primarily being a university english-focused writing punctuation or...