You CAN write a book! · Jul 15, 2026

The Em Dash Was Mine First

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I have this conversation with writers at least once a week.

I have this conversation with writers at least once a week. We talk about those AI tics. The contrast sentences. The em dashes. The quotation marks around words that don’t need them. And we wonder about those of us who were committed em dashers before the bots showed up. Yeah. I’m mad.

The em dash was mine before it was a red flag. And now I have to inte…

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