KillerMuffin, your punctuation guide rocks!

[kiwiwolf]

I just wanted to say that for lemons like me who know absolutely nothing about correct punctuation your guide is indispensable I thank you from the bottom of my tiny cotton socks Muffin by the way it has been a while since I have seen any new stuff from the pen of the mighty muffin and I was wondering if you have anything on the drawing board so to speak

again just let me thank you for the punctuation guide it will come in very handy indeed

folks if you are looking for it it is over on the new submissions page


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Great work Muffin... even I could understand it, and yes I have copied and pasted it and added it to my writers resourses folder. Many thanks.

 

[wildsweetone]

Oh Bliss!!!!

Great find KiwiWolf!

Here's the link:

http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=79818#question

It must have taken you a fair while KM, thank you!

 

[KillerMuffin]

Y'know, I wrote that so people who didn't know punctuation very well would have a nice reference on Lit available. I wanted it to be informal and chatty so I wouldn't talk down to whoever read it. I can get so bad that way when I move into lecture mode (as anyone around here can certainly attest!). I wanted the prose to be as interesting to read as possible considering that English rule guides are the second most boring thing in the world to read after Army field manuals.

What do I get? I get a few really nice thank you this will help! emails and this wonderful post. And I get about twenty emails from various english speaking geniuses who adore to point out that my vernacular is wrong. I have a sentence fragment and a comma splice in my first paragraph. I put in a in front of a plural. I said "Gawd, commas take forever" in the middle of the frigging thing. I used contractions when the only place one should use contractions is in informal writing, ie notes to friends and email to close confidantes. And on. And on.

Of course, my punctuation advice is impeccable. Other than there shouldn't be two spaces after the period, just one. Two is an ananchronism from manual typewriters.

*sigh*

You know, this is the first time that I have been absolutely correct and completely wrong at the same time. It's frustrating.

 

[kiwiwolf]

*sigh*

You know, this is the first time that I have been absolutely correct and completely wrong at the same time. It's frustrating.

After careful consideration I say... fuck 'em. You wrote the piece to help others which is typical of you and your big heart. If all they can do is try to pull you down for it then it shows what petty wankers they really are.

Advice from you made me a much better writer Muff, and now your punctuation advice is going to help even more. Thank you unreservedly.

Shane... chairman of the Muffin for President Club

 

[KillerMuffin]

Thank you, Kiwi.

 

[Pure]

KM said, on "How to punctuate..."


What do I get? I get a few really nice thank you this will help! emails and this wonderful post. And I get about twenty emails from various english speaking geniuses who adore to point out that my vernacular is wrong. I have a sentence fragment and a comma splice in my first paragraph. I put in a in front of a plural. I said "Gawd, commas take forever" in the middle of the frigging thing. I used contractions when the only place one should use contractions is in informal writing, ie notes to friends and email to close confidantes. And on. And on.

Of course, my punctuation advice is impeccable. Other than there shouldn't be two spaces after the period, just one. Two is an ananchronism from manual typewriters. /B]

Hey it's a fun and breezy piece, as intended. Not unlike the very useful books such as "Windows 98 for Dummies." Lots of double entendre and delightful dirt. Above all, audacious (KM's middle name, as widely known).

I think people fail to appreciate your intended irony; a punctuation guide with inserted errors of punctuation; a guide that thumbs its nose at the perfectionists and picky folk; indeed, a self announced guide which whacks us with mistakes showing the folly of guides. As you put it, "impeccable" --in its peccability; sinless, through its flaunting of sins.

Not only useful, but deliciously and boldly paradoxical! A delightful read from the one who found the F, the U, and the N in fucking.

 

[Debbie]

KM, I enjoyed the punctuation guide and learnt a thing or two.
I am always looking to improve my writing but don't have the time to do a writing course at the moment.

Thanks for taking the time to write it.

 

[pop_54]

Hi

Must agree with kiwi, *fuck the dictionary heads* muffin, you have provided us with your experience and knowledge at your own expense in time and internet fees, and as a favour to us all.

Thank you, but please don't take offence when you see my punctuation is still crap later, it's a me thing, nothing to do with your guide, hehe.


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