Still going!

[dreaminghope]

I just broke the 20,000 word mark.

At some point I must have decided that pants were interfering with my creativity.

My characters are starting to feel more real then I am.

I really love the semi-colon; there's a lot of them in my novel.

Comments

[iisz.livejournal.com]

Pants *always* interfere with creativity.

Damn pants.

Woo! you're almost there!

[dreamhope.livejournal.com]

Pants *always* interfere with creativity.

I have learned that lesson well!

[latelyontime.livejournal.com]

I like the semi colon too; it allows me to take a pause without breaking the flow. 20,000 and more in three days. I gawk!

[dreamhope.livejournal.com]

I like the semi colon too; it allows me to take a pause without breaking the flow.

I think that's a great explanation for why I've got so many of them in this novel: when doing something like, you write so fast that you don't want to ever stop for too long for fear of losing the flow, not just of the sentence, but of the whole story. So semi-colons maintain the speed better.

[cosmolinguist]

There's a lot of semi-colons in everything I write. Even text messages. I think it's a manifestation of my secret (or not very secret actually) belief that everything really is connected to everything else, and so it's all right to put it all in the same sentence.

Plus, I think they're quite attractive, as punctuation goes.

[dreamhope.livejournal.com]

Semi-colons are sexy, bringing things together as they do.

I see my love of the semi-colon as proof of my grammatical maturity. It is far more mature then the (long) youthful fling I had with the ellipsis.

[cosmolinguist]

The elipses never really tempted me, but I was — and to some degree still am — far too fond of dashes. And parenthses (or brackets, as you wish).