wildcat

Uncertain, how many commas and/or semicolons have been used as yet; word count remains (for the moment, by which I mean now, as it stands, simultaneous with current time, et cetera) at 3313 words with a minimum (indeed) of white space, only (per se) one scene break in ten pages.

I stopped a few hours ago, after starting, to go to the market (one package butter, asparagus, one onion, one chocolate-orange bar) and then make dinner (asparagus risotto). Distracted after that for a few hours, as a writer is (on occasion).

How do you read parentheses? Do you ignore them and then go back over the sentence to take them in? Or do you just lower your voice (subvocal articulation) when you take them in, as part of the sentence?

I'm using too many of them, I think, and I'm sorry about that. Grammar is properly about moderation and consideration for one's reader.

Rather: back to work, back to fingers-on-keys, back to the file, back to the Great Work, which is probably at best sub-average and maybe a little uninspired, depending on one's point of view. BUT I PROMISE that I'll let someone read it before I randomly delete the file. Because I'm a real boy (growed-up real good, hyup) and can salvage something, certainly, from the inevitable wreck.