Thursday, June 16, 2011
Punctuation is so overrated
It has recently come to my attention (and by recently I mean since I started this thing) that my punctuation is wrong and that I am using improper place for things like commas, well I am here to say I am sorry for using the proper punctuation if it makes what I write difficult for you to read, and I am making an effort to use the correct punctuation as I type this. Here is the problem though, I am not usually a prose writer. For those who have been familiar with my writing before this ie my friends, family, classmates, etc. you know that I mainly write poetry and dabble into the world of prose for the occasional short story or two. I am terrible at proper usage and grammatical rules, so I live in a world of writing where grammar means shit, and I am allowed to put one word on a line involving hyphens because I thought it added power to the word by adding some sort of empathetical symbol next to it. To me prose has always been too regulated, unless you are someone who transcends writing and who has a story so powerful that you have risen above the common rules of writing, all of your words become nothing but rambling and constant babbling without the ability to use correct punctuation. It's funny how something so simple can change an entire bit of literature, without that simple comma you wouldn't know when to pause or breathe while reading this and the flow of the entire post could be thrown off because of just one long run on sentence. Now I am not here to preach about the importance of punctuation all that much because like I said I am a free form writer and always have been, I don't like to be hampered or hindered by the rules of grammar and punctuation, and I don't always like to start my sentences with capital letters because I am just too fucking cool for that, however like I said in this instance where I am trying to speak to you I think it is important to address things that I do wrong. So I guess this post isn't so much about punctuation as it is about the overall blog, this is me the high and mighty writer, the king of the proverbial castle, reaching out to you the audience member asking what I can do to make the blog more enjoyable for you. Now that I have been through a few weeks of updating on the regular (sorry for not having a set update schedule, mine fluctuates too much for me to promise any writings on certain days), I would like some feedback. What topics did you like, which didn't you like, what can I talk about in the future, and what can I change about this to make it most enjoyable? Please leave me suggestions either here, or facebook, or email me at Nianth@gmail.com and let me know. Thank you once again for reading and I hope you continue to do so
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