User blog:Steam Phoenix/What are Ellipses?

What are ellipses? You know, these things: ...

I'll tell you what they are in this rant/blog/Writing advice piece. They aren't... something... you put into every sentence... like... this... They're ellipses. They're meant for trailing off, more or less. When there's more to be said that hasn't been said, then you put an ellipses.

"I don't think that's such a good idea, because... you know..." Todd said, hinting at the camera in the corner of the room.

It is also used to omit large sections of text. For example, if a letter a person gets in your story is smeared, the text that is smeared over gets omitted via ellipses.

(I will make an example here later)

Another place to put ellipses is an area of hesitation.

"I wasn't really... Well, I mean... Just..."

The thing is, I see alot of people using ellipses almost like they're substituting it for a period. It's not necessary. It hurts the story in a lot of bad ways.

(THIS BLOG IS NOT YET FINISHED)