
Simply Stated: A Blog on Writing
Writing Tips, Resources, and Musings
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Let’s talk about commas.
A comma is a saw slicing a branch from a tree trunk.

I just want comfy jeans.
Reading, hiking, watching movie trailers, and deconstructing marketing campaigns: these are just a few of my favorite hobbies.

The Bind of Absolutes
I’ll never like to dance.
Absolute language seems like a good idea in the moment.

Colons are magical.
I’m not sure when this happened, but I’ve become the type of person who has a favorite piece of punctuation: the colon.