My Favorite Punctuation
Quotation marks are my favorite punctuation. It means I can break from owning what I write. It means I’m just repeating someone else’s words without the hulking mess of my own thoughts.
But writers should never lead with a quote, one of my editors warned. Rarely are quotes beefy enough to prime a whole story. He said it’s a wimpy ploy.
So maybe my favorite is the apostrophe, the punctuation of ownership. Lora’s Subaru. Lora’s polka dot Dansko sneakers. Owning things is so much easier than owning words.
Quotation marks are my favorite punctuation. It means I can break from owning what I write. It means I’m just repeating someone else’s words without the hulking mess of my own thoughts.
But writers should never lead with a quote, one of my editors warned. Rarely are quotes beefy enough to prime a whole story. He said it’s a wimpy ploy.
So maybe my favorite is the apostrophe, the punctuation of ownership. Lora’s Subaru. Lora’s polka dot Dansko sneakers. Owning things is so much easier than owning words.
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