Is That a Comma Splice? The Joys of Coe Review

Mondays are always busy days but I didn't get back to my room until a bit later tonight since I spent two hours in Hickok.  The Coe Review is in the final stretch of putting our fiction issue together and tonight was an editing night.  The magazine was printed out and the readers sat around with various pages reading the stories and editing them if needed.  We made sure all the words were there, words were spelled correctly, and if there are any comma splices.  Oh  comma splices, how writers love but hate them.  What is a comma splice you may ask?  It's when a writer puts two independent sentences together with a comma, failing to use a connector, a semicolon, or a period.  And of course the other thing we had to look for was if an "error" was an actual error or a stylistic non-error put in by the writer.

After reading the stories I'm excited to see the issue all published and ready to read; there are a lot of good stories in there, some even written by Coe students.  Looking forward to see the issue in print, to attend the wrap party, and show friends and family what I've been working on Monday nights.