#ScribesAndMakers 9/15: "What's a situation where you feel a ';' definitely works better than a '.' ?"
A semicolon is good for tying together thoughts and observations that are neither fully separate nor interwoven completely. Here's a semicolon in a character description in my latest book:
"Goat-Olaf had been quite young when he had set out for the east with grand plans; now, however, he was well past his sixtieth year and half-bald, but other than that, he had changed surprisingly little."
Maike Claußnitzer
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