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National Punctuation Day 2025
Today is National Punctuation Day, period. It may seem passé in an age of texting and messaging apps, but what would prose be without punctuation to parcel it into a meaningful form❔
⁉️ Editors ❣️
And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read ‘Eats, Shoots and Leaves’ by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere! ~Dorothea Benton Frank
Proper punctuation can sometimes be perplexing.
Nobody but an English teacher can tell you what to do with a semicolon.
In the spirit of brevity, we’ve generally discarded punctuation in texting and instant messaging.
When I say “we”, I mean most people.
One of the funny things about being an old-school member of GenX is that a lot of us have a hard time NOT using proper punctuation and capitalization.
We had typing class in high school. Our hands were on Home Row. Trying to maintain manuscript perfection AND a high WPM was the goal…
But then our kids match the WPM with their fluttering thumbs by discarding the manuscript perfection.
Punctuation? Zounds! We’ve skipped merrily away from words. Srsly…
LMAO, ye, IDC, ur, IDK, the acronyms and pseudo-words fly like digital shorthand.
Unless you’re GenX, bwa-ha-ha❕
And don’t even get me started on the Oxford Comma…
You wouldn’t think someone could have a hot take on punctuation, but I have miles worth of rant material on this moronic concept. Feh.
❣️ National Day ⁉️
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Just goes to show you that there’s a National Day for darned near everything. So, we’re looking at punctuation today.
Go figure.
As a writer, I could probably opine until my fingertips go numb.
I’m not going to.
I’m tired, and I basically don’t care.
The nice thing about the video above is that it reminded me to grab the video below.
Today is also Cherries Jubilee Day. What can be more appetizing than flaming cherries?
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Answer: a flaming hot wife.
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Kelly and I got to go to the Autumn Craft Festival in Leesport last weekend, and we’re hoping to find a corn maze to wander through this coming weekend.
She had her concerns about being an empty nester, but we’re settling into it just in time for 🍁🧸☕ Cozy Season ☺️🥧🍂.
Besides, the nest is not empty 🏡 Rose is here 🐺 Fluff is here 😻 For God’s sake, I’m here! 🧔🏻 What am I, chopped liver⁉️ I’m here volunteering to be her next project. ⏯️ Some people… 🤦🏻♂️
⁉️ Punctuation Of Life ❣️
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life. ~Abbas Kiarostami
That’s the fun of writing: the question marks.
I begin a story with a vague notion of what’s going on and a large collection of question marks.
It’s the question marks that make the journey interesting.
What twists will occur? What adversaries will arise?
What’s the name of the restaurant where they have their first date?
When will it snow? That’s a very important ❓ for a Holiday Season Serial Romance, by the way…
The question marks demand answers.
They inspire exploration, immersion, resolution.
Regardless of genre, the ❓ is the fuel of drama and story.
Frankly, that’s quite exciting❕ It’s why I love to write.
That’s all for today. See you back on Saturday for public 🏞️ lands…