You know, now that I think about it, really, it doesn't make any sense.

[taste_is_sweet]

What the hell is it with me and commas? Seriously, it's like I'm personally responsible for the health and well-being of the damn things. If I'm not paying attention I start spraying them all over whatever I'm writing with very little logic and almost no sense that I can think of. Seriously, at least half the time I don't even put them where I'd actually take a breath if I was reading the sentence out loud. And yet, there they are.

I thought I'd gotten over this little...problem about three years or so ago around the same time I stopped (mostly) repeating stuff for emphasis. But I just re-read something that I posted just a few months ago, and there they are again: Commas. Too many of them. Either I somehow didn't think they needed removal the first time around, or they bred in my WIP folder while I wasn't looking. Maybe I need the digital equivalent of AMDRO.

Or maybe, just maybe, I need to pay more attention, when I write.

Comments

[mific.livejournal.com]

Me too. I'm better at writing them instinctively, but then I obsess with the self-betaing later and take some out. Then put a few back again. Then re-read the story months larer and think, damn, should have been a comma in there. *sigh*

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

LOL

Yes. That. Exactly. :D