Commas

[writerkit]

Every single copyedit I have ever received is primarily a list of all the ways I have misused commas.

Which is fine, that's what the copyedit is for (and all this repetition is improving my ability to catch it myself before I submit things); I'm just amused every time I open a new one and it's like "ah, yes, another list of commas."

Comments

[squirrelitude]

It's also one of the most common problems I notice in other people's writing. Often it seems they are used as "phew that was a lot of words, time for a break".