Editing

[smokingboot]

Editing is such fun.

Let's start with Capital Letters used for the Start of every Sentence and of course for every Proper Name, and let's include the Pseudo-Shakespearian/Medieval habit of giving Every Important Thing a Capital Letter; and then let's not forget dear old colons for ones'* list: comma overuse, abuse, and underuse, in a very long sentence that could do with breaking up only when you do break it up it makes no sense anyway; and thank heavens for semi-colons; without them, my ellipses would get so lonely...

The good thing is that dealing with these tiny matters help me to ignore greater arse-biscuiterie, such as story, continuity, and dialogue.

I have been staring at this thing so long I'm virtually cross-eyed. Englang, my Englang, don't you wuv me any more?

*Dare I even mention apostrophe catastrophe?

Comments

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Do you ever use hyphens in loco parentheses?

[oldnick.livejournal.com]

Far too often - and in place of commas.

[oldnick.livejournal.com]

The common cause of over-capitalisation here seems to be the German-Americans with which Fnord, as a company, is populated.

[tink-rachel.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling, at present commas do seem to be something to sprinkle liberally over everything (!)

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

My crimes against the semi-colon are many and unforgivable; to me, no paragraph ever seems complete without at least three; I stack them up like chairs in a church hall (and then I indulge in awful imagery to describe it!)