I am a very capable writer, I'm not trained yet I have some very unique life experiences, strong ideals and principles and a firm poetic voice which mean I can write well. Yet I have no idea how to use punctuation. I didn't really do well at school, and never entered further education. The only writings of mine that have faced any scrutiny have been text messages and 4chan posts. So what can I do to fix this?This is an example of my writing punctuated just as I felt as I went along. >By travelling, I longed to journey to places where man had never trod, I strived to a state of being which was thoughtless, to have my emotions bound by that of nature and be one, a state which would be impossible in the sedentary inanity of modern living. I have devoted my sight to beauty, my mind to freedom, devoted my body to my soul and my soul to eternity. I have striven to an ideal. I clasped at thunderstorms, shivered mid tears, seeing them flung and disappear. I felt my idealisations crash against the darkest night and woke to see them lay in the day a battered wreck. I had become divorced from hope at times wandering landscapes that the horizon had long abandoned. Yet now I know that I really have reached a true state of being - one that may be called free. I really felt that I wore my soul in the fibres of my flesh and not just buried in the black bottom of my body. I felt the breeze, I felt the smiles, I felt the weather not merely physically. I really had become one with my emotions just as I had longed for. I hadn't even realised it because I was so determined to reach an even greater extent of soulfulness I hadn't even realised that I had reached something else What would fix it and what could I do to improve my grasp of punctuation?>pic unrelated
>>24781361>”I am a very capable writer”>that sample
>>24781465How is that not capable you retard?
>>24782437It's awful
>>24782448How is it?
>>24781361That's pretty much fine it's readable. If you wanted to get published your editor would want the same paragraph to look something like this instead to appease the plebs and there's some merit to that.I longed to journey to places where man had never trod. I strived to enter a state of being which was thoughtless and to have my emotions bound by nature and be whole, a state which would be impossible in the sedentary inanity of modern living. I have devoted my sight to beauty, my mind to freedom, my body to my soul and my soul to eternity. I have striven to an ideal. I have clasped at thunderstorms, shivered mid tears and seen them flung and disappear. I felt my idealisations crash against the darkest night and woke to see them lay in the day a battered wreck. I have become divorced from hope at times when wandering landscapes that the horizon had long abandoned. Yet, now I know that I really have reached a state of being that may be called truly free. I really felt that I wore my soul in the fibres of my flesh and not just buried in the black bottom of my body. I felt the breeze, I felt the smiles, I felt the weather not merely physically. I really had become one with my emotions just as I had longed for. I hadn't even realised when I reached this threshold because I was so determined to reach an even greater extent of soulfulness. I hadn't even realised that I had reached something else
>>24782473Now that said I don't know why you would ever write first person-past tense unless it's expository nonfiction, like a journal or a biography. It removes alot of the stakes imo and the english language basically garuntees you're going to be doing a whole lot of "and then I said" "and then this had happened" type shit. First person present tense is alot easier and it easily filters normies without an internal monologue because the trappings of the medium prevents you from writing 'ahead' of yourself and including too much information.
>>24782481>Now that said I don't know why you would ever write first person-past tenseIt's not a serious piece. Just reflecting to myself a journey I had recently. But I want to people able to write punctuation to express myself as succinctly as possible for the future
>>24781361>By travelling, I longed to journeyYou longed to do something in the middle of doing it?
>>24782491Biggest lesson I can teach is that it's okay to say 'and' twice in a sentence no matter what your english teacher taught you if it makess the text more legible. Commas are helpful but you should use a period whenever possible.
>>24781361Stop trying to force cumulative sentences if you aren't good at grammar. It's easy to fuck up tenses or point of view if you aren't a prolific reader or haven't studied grammar intentionally.
>>24782520^
>>24782511In English class you're taught English applicable to daily life. Beyond that, be that in later years at school or in uni, you can do whatever you want as long as it works.
