Quantum2003 hit the nail on the head for me with semicolons. I like to precisely engineer the meter of my writing. I started writing very conversationally and informally for a blog I created. I improperly employed hyphens, double-spacing, a line with only one word, and a mess of other traffic violations, all for the purpose of getting the reader to hear my snarkiness. (Mind you this was intended to be a blog for Internet friends about parenting/infertility).

To my surprise, this landed me some opportunities to write for
some well-known parent / baby magazines. When I turned in my first properly-punctuated piece, my editor asked me revert back to my informal 'blog-voice'...which is when I realized how much the Internet has influenced our consumption of written material.

Last edited by Evemomma; 07/18/12 02:01 PM.