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Jeanine Kitchel's avatar

Always love your tips, Jennifer. Always makes me want to pull up my last post and make sure I didn't make that mistake ): I have to be careful with overuse of commas. So a good reminder for sure.

Jennifer Silva Redmond's avatar

I ofyen have typos in my Substack. It's very different to see these sort of mistakes in published books!

Mikel K Miller's avatar

More good advice. Thanks!

Jennifer Silva Redmond's avatar

Thanks for commenting, amigo.

JUDY REEVES's avatar

That "started to" is a real bugaboo of mine too. I am a guilty comma-overuser, as you well know, having edited my manuscripts. We all can learn a lot from you, dear Editor on Board. Thanks.

Alicia Dara's avatar

WOW there's so much to learn from this post! I didn't know any of these things and you laid them out in a way that makes complete sense. I'll work on all of this going forward PS Thanks for the shout-out, it was such a fun chat! Next time we'll get the technical shit dialed in on our laptops ;)

Jennifer Silva Redmond's avatar

It has been a long time since high school English for most of us!

Jennifer Silva Redmond's avatar

I like when you share my pet peeves!