Sunday, December 5, 2010

Deep grammatical thought of the night

My first editor once told me that if I was going to use a comma, I could probably use a period. It's been a long time since I thought about that — obviously, if you read my stuff. It occurs to me that if he saw my writing now, he might say the same thing about my use of semicolons.

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