To bring some activity to this community beyond the writing club, here’s a guide on how to use dashes and hyphens. Do you use these in your own writing?

  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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    13 days ago

    I have the answer: do you want a dash? Type a dash.

    Which one? Idk, it’s on the keyboard, do I look like I have the fucking time for three different kinds of dashes?

    They’re little lines, and you’re alive now, not forever. Do the right thing and don’t give a fuck.

    • Ellie@slrpnk.netM
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      7 days ago

      If you’re self editing it’s worth learning the use, even if you don’t use some of them. The en dash I’ve largely ignored myself, it doesn’t seem to be used much in fiction nowadays.