INT. MY APARTMENT – AFTERNOON
If…you…use…periods…as…ellipses…between…words…without…a…space…it…counts…those…words…
as…one…word.
You… have… to… break… them… up… with… spaces… to… get… a… proper… word… count.
But–double–dashes–without–spaces–are–O.K.
Unless – there – is – one – of – them – with – two – spaces – on – either – side, in – which – case, the – dash – is – itself – counted – as – a – word.
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NANCY E. SHAFFER has been an experimental psychologist (M.A., Cognitive Psychology, Rice University), a philosopher (Ph.D., History and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Davis), and software developer. She taught history and philosophy of science at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec and the University of Nebraska Omaha.
Her philosophical work has appeared in the journal Philosophy of Science and her pop-culture philosophy website, All Things Philosophical on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel: the Series.
Dis/inhbition is her first novel.
She currently resides in Tempe, Arizona.
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My word processer won’t allow two dashes between words. It gives me an em dash, instead. I don’t think it affects the word count differently from a dash. I always use a space after an elipsis, anyway.
I’ve changed the options on my WP so it doesn’t auto-correct that stuff. It’s so annoying, and doesn’t translate in an html environment.
Yeah, & w/ellipses & no spaces btwn. words, LJ can’t put in a line break, so you have to scroll over to read the rest of the sentence…& the effect continues alll the way down your friendspage.
BTW, love that stage direction! @>)