Jim Braly

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Jim Braly, a former reporter and editor at newspapers in the West, is the author of the novels “Johnny’s War” and “Invade Rinse Repeat.” He’s currently writing a play about domestic violence.

Punctuation as metaphor?

I think there probably are not any rules for writing novels anymore. Or if there are, it's all right to break them. Especially if you have a reason. (Oops, sentence fragment there, but I'm doing it for effect.)

As I edit my own book, I've decided to eliminate the commas from strings of adjectives (a grammatical no-no, according to my English teacher Miss Higginbotham).

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Published on October 17, 2011 18:01 Tags: writing-editing-punctuation
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Johnny's War

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Invade Rinse Repeat

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Property of Gary

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