RS, Author, Novelist on Nostr: #WritersCoffeeClub Ch 7 Nbr 18 — Do you ever use parentheses/brackets in your ...

#WritersCoffeeClub Ch 7 Nbr 18 — Do you ever use parentheses/brackets in your writing?

I use em-dashes in the 1st person narrative quite often, mostly in the sense of setting off parenthetical remarks. I occasionally use parentheses, usually in dialogue but sometimes for very short or one word inserts.

I rarely use brackets, except for out-of-context author inserts in essays (see below), for inline author clarifications usually in front or rear matter in a larger work, or for attributions in quotes or epigraphs.

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