Fringe
I need to cut down on the commas and take a break from the incomplete sentences.
I don’t normally have a lot of rules for this blog, but enough is enough.
As the new year gets rolling, I’ve looked back at some of my 2014 posts. Usually, I write what comes to mind and then it’s gone. I don’t look back. There may be a reason I don’t look back because, holy commas and odd lists. It’s as if I’ve forgotten how to put together a sentence. Maybe I truncated somewhere in May of last year, and like a favorite sweater, I could not take it off?
A brain reboot may be in order because I noticed that the clipped trend got progressively worse as the year went on. I ended 2014 and even started 2015 swimming in a sea of random things strung together by commas. I am not a poet, if I were a poet, this might be cool, but I fear in my case, it’s laziness.
Maybe I became bored with those filler words that, well sort of make a compete sentence? It’s time to step back from the bullet listing comma party and find my big girl sentence structure again, at least for a little while.
I also cleaned the dust bunnies out from under my bed last night and organized my closet. New year, time to kick out some of the stale habits and freshen up.
I knew I would get here eventually.
The 2015 calendar is out of the plastic and up on my wall. While I do not make New Year’s resolutions, I am all about complete sentences and folded sweaters, at least until I’m not.
My thoughts from the laundry room. Good Night’s Sleep.
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I love your posts, just as they are…even if you are lapsing into a comma over it. As the alysthebookwyrm says, “semi-colons are the answer,” and I use them all too frequently. ~nan
That’s nice. Thank you. I do feel like the semi-colon will just become my new punctuation drug of choice. 🙂
This is brilliant! I’m always running sentences for far too long. I found that semi-colons were the answer!
A semi-colon!! Yes, I need them. Thank you, Alys.
Don’t change–loved your posts just as they are. Laundry Rooms aren’t suppose to be perfect! 🙂
Awww, 🙂 Thank you. It is true, things are pretty messy in the laundry room.
Guilty! When I first started blogging, I did so every day. I published a post every day for months. I’m exhausted just thinking about that. In doing that, I failed to let words and sentences settle down. I was more worried about getting stuff read than how it read. And it shows in my earlier work. My writing has vastly improved since I slowed down, walked away from a post and then come back to it for editing. It’s still very much a work in progress!
“Let the words settle down.” I like that. Great mantra. Thanks, Dawn. 🙂