#emdash

[pasiphile]

Given the current writing climate, i kind of feel like i should be putting in a disclaimer:

Despite the truly staggering amount of emdashes, this fic has not ever been— nor will it hopefully ever be—within spitting range of an AI.

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[windandwater]

things that are not an emdash:

text - text

text text – text text text

text  –

text -

text–

text-

text text---text text text

this is a hyphen: -

you use it to divide or combine words. well-known. old-fashioned. when used to divide words, it's usually over a line break. when and how you should combine words is your extracurricular reading.

this is an en dash: –

you use it for ranges of numbers, times, or dates. January 5 – February 10. 1:00 – 2:30. 3 – 4. you put spaces around an endash. Microsoft Word autocorrects space hyphen space to an endash, which is not always correct.

things that are an emdash:

text text—text text text

text text--text text

text text — text text

text text -- text text

-- is two hyphens in a row and can be used instead of an emdash in a pinch, but — is better, especially for any published writing.

Microsoft word autocorrects -- to — when you don't put spaces around it, but a lot of people don't know to use -- in the first place and end up with a wildly incorrect endash.

whether or not you put spaces around an emdash is up to your styleguide.

I deeply prefer Chicago style over everything else so I also prefer no spaces. if you're more of an AP style user, you might be more inclined towards spaces, because AP is incorrect about everything. if you've only ever used MLA, you are beyond my help. whatever APA or Bluebook are doing is none of my business.

in general, if you're writing fiction, it's better to stick to Chicago style, and that *is* an unbiased opinion. you can look up what the others are for if you like.

the most important thing is consistency: do it the same way every single time.

however, using spaces around an endash or hyphen that should be an emdash is always incorrect.

other persistently incorrect usage of an emdash:

text— text text

text —text text text

how you use emdashes is another post entirely and is often a matter of personal style. more extracurricular reading. but you definitely need to use it when you're cutting off in the middle of dialogue, e.g.:

"Well, I don't really—" "I do," said her friend, interrupting.

you should also learn when to use a semicolon vs. colon vs. emdash. they all serve different purposes. in general terms, an emdash is a more abrupt break in the sentence, but please use them on purpose, knowing exactly what they are.

and no more space hyphen space. I die a little inside every time. please.

the emdash is not on the keyboard. to easily get an emdash outside of Microsoft Fucking Word, use Get an Emdash. click the button and it will automatically be put on your clipboard for an easy copy/paste.

in my next post: I teach you how to write a styleguide for your fanfiction.

[paledyingrose]

sorry but you’re going to have to pry the em dash out of my cold dead hands i’ll never stop overusing it

[hereagain4u]

Hello, hello!!! Who's your bias in each group? Out of curiosity (⁠´⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠.̫⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠`⁠)

-🐇🌹

OMG I GET THE OSHISTAR KANA-SAMA IN MY INBOX

HELLOO!!!!

Hmm, that's a bit of a tough question consedering certain circumstance (ehm ehm: @menu-and-you you should totally follow it guys and thanks again for allowing me to make it) but I'll try to answer to the best of my ability

@g7rlcrush / G7rlCrush : i have a bit of a soft for maknaes and brooklynn ( katskisses )was actually the person i knew most before she was scouted... but also yunjin is my ult bias so i'm between choosing vienna ( raspberridani ) and brooklynn (seulgi who would’ve been my main bias had i stayed as a revuluv )

@emdashofficial / EMDash : indi ( katscopic ) from ryujin- i mean itzy from ryujin- i mean indi is certaintly a contender, no reason at all....( i also like saying the word "Ma-Vo") selzuha ( av4nzini ) is, with ryujin, my ult bias wreckers... so that's quite the group you have there oshistars XD, so much so that mzmal ( Giselle ) was such a strong continder but i fear with those two being #1 wrecker and her #3

@youx2-offical / YOU&YOU :

now i did answer this before with it being lulu ( luluvrs ) and leadernim nellie ( lovelee4u ) as my bias wrecker.. but that was mostly on my knowing them as pre-scouted, and not as who they were scouted as;

now with that in mind mother lulu still is in the lead as mother sana 🙏, with surpisingly our maknae ava ( hermslore ) [ kim jennie ] battiling not nel oppa ( tzuyu ) but actually vivi (vivilvr) [ nayeon ]

Thanks again for question and I wish luck your way for further making this project successful!!

[hawaii]

Same. (Credit: Clare Costello)

[vexwerewolf]

Millennial writers – they be like, you know – abusing emdashes – something they're very fond of doing – at every possible juncture – despite the fact that semicolons, colons, commas and parentheses – they also exist

[potatofever]

forgot to put this here!