Theoretically, I favor total immersion in one project at a time. The longer I can spend thinking about one universe the better and deeper I understand it, I think. But I'm not very good at not sparking off into other things whenever a stray thought from a different story wanders by.

I do like to keep whatever I'm reading or watching or talking about unrelated to what I'm working on, though, and escape that way.

I need someone who's willing to read three...well, two and a half...chapters of a goofy fantasy novel and help me get past the point where I'm stuck. I need someone to go "Dude, what should happen next is..." and then I can do that.

'cause I been stuck on this one fucking "and then what?" point for, like, two months.

The first sentence, with two dashes, reads easiest to me. Would parentheses be a possibility? It seems like a parenthetical clarification.

Rephrase, maybe?

It describes as a secondary factor the interests, such as fossil fuel companies and automobile manufacturers, that would directly suffer from a reduction in fossil-fuel use.

I'd love to read a goofy fantasy novel, MM. If I can help with the what comes next question I don't know, but I'll try.

Profile addy good, -t?

Yup.

I had to go look at it to be sure. And I have to step away from the computer for a bt, so don't fret if I don't respond right away.

-t, yeah the problem is that using dashes or parenthesis before the first use of commas will look wrong to many readers, even if technically c correct. I think Ginger is right. Because of context I had to modify her suggestion to:

"It describes only as a secondary factor the interests, such as fossil fuel companies and automobile manufacturers, that would directly suffer from a reduction in fossil fuel use."

[edit] but "only" makes for an awkward sentence.

Punctuation is in no way my strong point. The rephrase is nice and clear.

ETa: does not seem awkward to me, fwiw.

-t, insent. Take a look when you have the time. No rush, seriously.