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Category: Punctuation

The Semi-Colon in Descriptive Writing

January 7, 2023February 14, 2024 ~ Le Veleur ~ Leave a comment

Let’s say your character steps through a door and sees a whole new world. This means you have a setting to describe. It’s an important setting – not one you can just skate over. It would be no good writing something like, “John stepped through the door and saw an amazing garden” … and then just moving on to something else.

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