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Improving my writing.
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How do I become a better writer? I am not referring to writing better stories, or novels, or questions that can be answered simply with " Write more". Instead, I am a writer of non-fiction in academia, and I want to be able to better use things like commas, or dashes. For instance, I know that I use commas far too much; I learned English as a second language, and I was taught to put commas when I naturally took a breath. I know now that approaching commas that way is mostly wrong.

Does /lit/ have any advice?
inb4 writemore.
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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=comma+usage
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>>7737690

Read all your work out loud. If the commas break the flow of the writing, rewrite.

Re-draft your work frequently, or look at it with "fresh" eyes.

Have other people read your work and ask them which parts worked and why. Which parts didn't and why.
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>>7737725
How do you know when the comma is breaking the flow of the writing? Should I breathe when I place a comma?
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>>7737690
>I was taught to put commas when I naturally took a breath

That explains McCormac's prose: brain doesn't get enough oxygen.
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