The Grammar Rebel, and KidlitCon links

Last night, while writing, I debated whether to put a comma in a sentence that was "supposed" to have one. I believe the rule I'm referring to is the one about compound sentences joined by a conjunction, but I'm better at knowing how to apply a rule than knowing what it's called. Anyway, the pace and emotional tenor of the sentence changed with the comma. The narrator of that sentence was desperate, on the edge, and the comma forced a pause where he really wasn't pausing. I decided to lea...