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T. M. Shannon 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @tmshannonauthor.com

Baby author's first book - italics for emphasis and exclamation marks galore Not so baby author's WIP - exclamation marks and em dashes galore I took out the former but the MS still has 900 dashes I need to savagely reduce #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #ReaderSky #BookSky

sep 1, 2025, 1:55 am • 1 0

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Steve Goble, author @curious-blue-dot.bsky.social

I am somewhat dash-happy, too, but I use those better than I used semi-colons in my older stories.

sep 1, 2025, 2:11 am • 1 0 • view