Editing some of my writing today and here are two revelations about myself –
Apparently I’m perfectly happy to use the Oxford comma in my fiction – but I’m always reluctant to use semi-colons. They just feel pretentious to me – I’m not even sure why.
I always want to use a comma before I start a dialog quote even if it’s not a dialog tag. I spend hours of editing time fixing this and yet I still haven’t broken the habit.
Jenel Alan 