Excessive Use of Punctuation

What to Do and What Not to Do in Fanfictions

Excessive Use of Punctuation

 

An ellipsis only consists of three dots [ ... ]. However, if it is at the end of a question, the ellipsis is followed by a period, therefore making it 4 dots. 

No one wants to see this (prepare for a horrible example):

"The man looked above..............all he could see were three black silhouettes against the bright blue sky. 
When the man looked above he couldn't quite believe what he saw............"

Just stop stop STOP.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. Three dots will do or at the end of sentences, four.

Seriously, isn't it easier to click the "." 3 times instead of seeing how many you can squeeze in a sentence without completely murdering it?

Instead, try something like this:

"The man looked above... all he could see were three black silhouettes against the bright blue sky. 
When the man looked above he couldn't quite believe what he saw...."

See, that wasn't hard... right? 

One way to have readers respect you and like your fanfics is by writing professionally.

Which ALSO includes (yes, this rant isn't over yet):

"What the hell is going on?!?!?!?!"

A question and exclamation mark will do just fine. Like I said before with the period, it is much easier to click it once or twice instead of several times especially when holding down the shift button.

I will end my rant here.

Thank you for reading.

 

-Rue

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the_wylde #1
Chapter 3: Hmm, this is interesting and I guess it differs from one to another. I personally like author's notes a lot. I truly feel like most of the time, authors don't really want us to hold them in a high pedestal. Instead, they might just want to be friendly with the people who read their stories. It's a 'fans-to-fans' place and I personally feel so good getting to know the fellow fans. I hope that makes sense lol. And also, I might be weird but I love it when authors use the background and poster feature to set the mood of the story.
FullmetalTitan #2
Chapter 3: I think it's okay if users want to add a little color to their fics, but nothing too bright or blinding -__- Thank God they included a Enable Reader mode thing where you can disable brightly colored text ^^ Really comes in handy. I think soft colors should be fine though, like a soft shades of red or something...that's what I sometimes use :3

As for the pictures I'm against using them. I like describing them, so readers can visualize better rather then staring at an image.
immaninja13 #3
Chapter 8: Though plot is important, so is characterization. Yes, a good story can be written without describing the characters much, but lack of characterization can bore me easily.
TheChuglyOne #4
Chapter 5: Personally, I dislike when people write something like [Jongup Oneshot] C.R.E.A.M
We'll know from the tags, you don't need to tell us!
TheChuglyOne #5
Chapter 1: Do you know what is awful? When people don't know when to use the comma instead of the ellipsis. I've seen fics that would go something like:
(I can't think of anything, so I'll just use an example with a name)
"I love you ... Jongdae"
Klutzy #6
Chapter 4: I understand the punctuation one though cause that really is annoying.
Kumikocchi #7
I have so many things I would rant about XD Interesting to see yours
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