For Writers: Commas and Revitalizing Your Fiction

I have not been keeping up with the Writing Forward Blog, which is not to my credit. Melissa Donovan's material is solid in its good sense.

23 Fiction Writing Ideas That Will Revitalize Your Story is too full of good advice for summarizing here. Go read it. Nothing I saw but useful ideas.

I admit to an error criticized in Punctuation Marks: The Comma - I do think that commas are like music signs for a pause (along with ellipses and semicolons and dashes). There are seven rules stated, and then this advice:

Too many punctuation marks in a piece of writing are like rocks in the readers’ shoes. They are distracting and uncomfortable. Too few punctuation marks are like wearing shoes without traction on a slippery floor. Readers will slide all over the place and have trouble following your ideas.

Use commas and all other punctuation marks wisely. And keep writing.

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