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[Drygioni]

It's alright mate, I'm just a cock really

[Dangermoose]

It's alright mate, I'm just a... cock really

FTFY

[jay-ell]

My childhood best friend -- with whom I am still in contact --

(however inconsistent that contact may be)

 -- uses ellipses...and dashes --

and odd
   spacing --

because she thinks --

apparently --

that she is...

Emily Dickenson.

[wombat]

I used to use more ellipses when writing fiction until I noticed that when I was reading fiction, nearly every time a writer used ellipses, it was a bad sentence that annoyed me. So I try to use them VERY sparingly now.

I also have a tendency to use too many dashes in my other writing, partly as a way around the fact that certain of my editors object to any slightly complicated sentence. But one of them finally smacked me down about it (nicely) and I am much more concious of it and careful only to use them when I can't think of any other way out.

I have no idea whether messageboard posts count as fiction or nonfiction so I don't know which bad tendency I might be not paying enough attention to here.

[Drygioni]

I have no idea whether messageboard posts count as fiction or nonfiction so I don't know which bad tendency I might be not paying enough attention to here.

Non-fiction, I am not a real person so.

[jaydub]

My childhood best friend -- with whom I am still in contact --

(however inconsistent that contact may be)

 -- uses ellipses...and dashes --

and odd
   spacing --

because she thinks --

apparently --

that she is...

Emily Dickenson.

emendo gratis

[Dangermoose]

Dashes are alright when used judiciously or if you were Jack Kerouac, and even he isn't anymore.

What I hate is when people are careless about them and start a clause with a dash, then end it with a comma.  The hell!

[Bobby Isosceles]

http://www.cwgp.org/gurewitch_and_onstad.php

appears to be in Rochester New York

What's the panel called? "How to succeed at webcomics by never updating"?

[Limmo]

canned

[Arachno-capitalist]

If I knew I could sustain a family and own a home by drawing cats once every ten days I would have taken more art classes in college.

[greenkoolayd]

If I knew I could sustain a family and own a home by drawing cats once every ten days I would have taken more art classes in college.

based on his current business model/schedule, if onstrad would update every 10 days, he could afford in excess of 3 families and 5 homes.

[Victoria Waterfield]

based on his current schedule, if onstrad would update every 10 days, he could afford in excess of 3 families and 5 homes.

And if he put just ONE mp3 of his butt on the internet, he could even double that.

[Limmo]

is he still sitting at his drawing board? 

[Arachno-capitalist]

is he still sitting at his drawing board? 

Dude webcomics are really hard, give the man some time for his creative process to work.