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this made me giggle: "Somehow is a super-weasel, a word that betrays that the author didn't want to bother thinking out the story -- 'Somehow she just knew...' Nothing in your story happens 'somehow.' It happens because you wrote it. Take responsibility!"
— Jan 25, 2026 03:37PM
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Mads
is on page 13 of 160
this made me giggle: "Somehow is a super-weasel, a word that betrays that the author didn't want to bother thinking out the story -- 'Somehow she just knew...' Nothing in your story happens 'somehow.' It happens because you wrote it. Take responsibility!"
— Jan 25, 2026 03:36PM
Mads
is on page 13 of 160
"You're on your own out there with those man-eating semicolons." She's pointing and laughing at the writers who don;t know how to use semicolons. Not me though; I for sure; know how to use them.
— Dec 27, 2025 06:55PM
