This is a test. This is only a test.
I've been using the username dadadadio or dadadadiox since the early days of the internet. The X was added when another dadadadio beat me to it on some site I've already forgotten. That name is a line of dialogue in a very popular film. Back in the nineties, I was watching that movie with my son, he was about six, and when he heard that line he laughed as hard as I'd ever seen my child laugh. He pointed his finger at me and said, "Dadadadio!"
The internet was taking off at the time. I was on dial-up Prodigy back in 1992, then AOL, and MSN Groups. I still have my circa 1996 Hotmail address. The same week my kid laughed at that joke I was opening a new account for something and used dadadadio for the first time. I don't recall what service. It's been used many times now. There are more dead accounts with that name than living.
This Blogger account was a dead dadadadio. I'm resurrecting Blogger dadadadio after ending the life of a different account of that name. I need a new place to write. This will suffice until I figure out where my fiction writing will land next. I deleted the old blog posts, mostly non-fiction rubbish from a decade ago.
Badcomma is my other writing identity. It's a self-poke about my bad usage of the Oxford comma. I mostly overuse the comma, unnecessarily adding hesitations and changing the cadence of my writing. I'm also guilty of comma splicing. In my attempts to fix my poor usage, I would overcorrect and not use enough commas.
My name is Don. I am a commaholic. I've been abusing the comma most of my life. I'm in recovery, getting better, but my writing is still a work in progress. I suppose that's true of all writers. As long as you're still writing your craft is a work in progress.
The other punctuation that trips me up is the quotation mark. I know the rules and how to use them but I write so much dialogue, scene after scene of people talking, I've used many thousands of quotation marks. When you're wrangling so many of those slippery little fuckers some will escape. I find them hanging on the end of the narrative paragraph from time to time. It's not too jarring for the reader but it will make you think for a millisecond, 'Why's that there?' And then your eyes move on.
I'm working on my writing flaws and the only way I know how to improve is to keep writing.
As I stated up top, this blog post was me writing something to test the appearance of the blog. As always, I wrote too many words than required. It's what I do.