I tend to write like I speak so I'm a big fan of the dramatic pause...(ellipses). It might appear unassuming...just lying there...but it serves it's purpose quite well.
I also like the exclamation point! It captures your attention like nothing else.
But as my friends can tell you...I am not a fan of the comma. It just dangles there, teasing me, and interrupting my flow.
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Do you have a favorite, overused punctuation mark? Come on...share it!
I would like to add if there was a symbol that stood for elaborate hand gestures it would be my favorite. I may have to invent this. Like little jazz hands.
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I don't know what you're talking about!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI tend to enjoy the ellipses myself...they just add...drama!!!!!
And now I'm brainstorming how to do jazz hands with the keyboard. . .
* * <<that works, but it' kind of small, and jazz hands should never go unnoticed. :)
LOL. I knew you would like the jazz hands. Just like you already knew about my comma aversion.haha
ReplyDeletecan I have the one in the middle? Please? It's just too damn cute.
ReplyDeleteI love the pics and the jazz hands idea! Super cute! I love punctuation -- especially the dash. The one I don't like is the semicolon. Annoying, unnecessary, and way overused by newbie writers.
ReplyDeleteGreat post! :-)
I'm a personal fan of the interrobang, though I have yet to use it in writing. How can you not love a combo of an exclamation point and question mark‽
ReplyDeleteI once met an agent who said he hated the ellipses. If anyone used it to denote a pause, he said he just hated their writing and knew they weren't for him. "You can do the same thing with a comma!" he proclaimed. Needless to say... we didn't really "work out"...
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