I'm sure you've seen that image of the pony cocktails that's been floating around the web for a couple years now:

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I'm driving from Calgary to Vancouver tomorrow for BronyCan. I'm pretty excited. That is all.

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Welcome to the second installment in the "Egghead's Guide to..." series! In the previous installment we covered how to properly punctuate dialogue in stories. While that is one of the areas that's most commonly messed up in a story, today's topic is definitely a much more difficult one: commas. Commas are the most versitile piece of punctuation in the English language, taking on a huge variety of roles--I would argue too many roles. One of the books that I used to help me write this, the

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The most common issue that I have seen in the stories published on this site is one of punctuation; every time I edit a story, at least half of the changes made are to the punctuation of the story. To help some authors, and to act as a resource that I can point others to, I think that I might make a series of “how to” articles about grammar and punctuation. To kick things off, we will cover the most widespread problem: quotation marks and other punctuation around them.

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