Talk:The Insane Apocalypse/@comment-25340844-20141026014821

No. You absolutely do not use those irritating little "*performs action*" things in a story. That's incredibly lazy and makes your work seem half-assed. If you want a character to do something, you write it out properly. Go grab a Stephen King or Jack Ketchum novel and flip through it. You'll notice they don't make use of it, and there's a very good reason for that.

By all means, use it in comments and text messages when you're trying to be cute or funny, but leave it out of stories if you want people to take you seriously.