I’ve decided that if I were to be any fictional cartoon character, it would be a fairy!

Not just any fairy, mind you, but a useful fairy that sprinkles good wherever she goes!

My official title would be Wiwohka the Word Writing Punctuation Fairy!

You know how you always see a fairy that uses her wand to sprinkle either happy dust, dreamy dust, or silly dust all over her subjects… well, it would be kind of like that, only with things like commas, periods and quotation marks!

Commas are my actual favorite and I love nothing more than to go over the words on my pages, generously sprinkling them here and there and everywhere! 

Do you remember the movie, Rise of the Guardians? It’s an adorable animated movie involving Santa and a few others trying to save children’s imagination from the evil schemes of a dream stealer… this is a very loose description of the movie because I don’t want to ruin it for those who haven’t seen it. 

Anyway, near the middle of the movie, there is a scene where they got a bit wild with the magic dust they were using, causing a bit of a kerfuffle! Ummm… sometimes I feel like that happens in my writing, with all the flying punctuations ricocheting off the ceiling in my literary loft.

If I were living in a fictional cartoon world, I suppose it would be perfectly normal to see my magic commas and quotations afloat in all the ponds, waterways, cereal bowls, and drinking glasses I can reach… but in the real world, well, not so much!

They made it look so easy back in school, when we were given a sentence to punctuate, a pencil to mark it up, and two hands to clap out the phrases to see how many places to put our commas. Perhaps this was the reason Captain Kirk always talked as if there were major gaps between every 3 or 4 words he spoke. 

Whatever it is that makes me over sprinkle my magic punctuation dust, too much of a good thing can become unhealthy, infecting all the other good ingredients on the page!

Currently, I am having my wand looked at, just in case it needs repair or an update to its magic software. 

If I am to be an imaginary cartoon fairy, then I shall strive to perform my punctuation Fairy duties to the best of my abilities!