Little Clauses Grow Up Too Fast

This started as an attempt to revive “Wordy Wednesday,” but Wednesday turned into Thursday and it seemed silly to title the post “Wordy Wednesday” on a Thursday. As I was writing it, a plethora of independent clauses clambered around in my head and spilled out onto my keyboard, clamoring for attention, and this morphed into a discussion of run-on sentences, the evils of comma splices, the merits of the semicolon, and more. Cast aside visions of your Fifth Grade English teacher and her ruler; I hope you have fun with this and find it useful!