LONG A/N IS LONG.

Firstly, CAN ANYBODY DRAW VERY WELL? IF YOU CAN, MR KIRKLAND ASKS IF YOU CAN DRAW A SEXY PICTURE OF HIMSELF POINTING TO A BLACKBOARD WITH HIS CROP WITH THE WORDS "WRITING LESSONS" ON IT OR SOMETHING. He says it looks very unprofessional that something like this should go without having a proper cover for it and he's been yelling at me for not being able to draw. What do you expect, I'm a writer, not an artist!

Secondly, oh my God did you see the Opening Olympics Ceremony? A GIANT BLOW UP VOLDEMORT AND MR BEAN PLAYING THE PIANO. MY LIFE IS NOW COMPLETE, FUCK EVERYTHING. I don't care what you say, that was AMAZING already! The Industrial Revolution piece as well, what is that song? I WANT IT. I WANT IT NOW.

Thirdly, sorry this took so long to get out. University and real life, you know? I got into the Avengers fandom after seeing the film. WATCH IT NOW or when it comes on dvd anyway, BUY IT. IT'S AMAZING.

Fourthly (really?), quite a lot of people have strong opinions on the last chapter about OCs. That's good! You should stick to your opinions but don't blow over other peoples' either! I'm glad you have such strong opinions! But my own still stands, I can understand how people might like OCs, but I myself don't really like them all that much and so I avoid them. CharacterxOC is also just the death of a story for me, I avoid it like the plague afterwards xD!

Fifthly, HELLO DISGUSTED. I'm a secret racist? Did you know that I don't care? I watch and write Hetalia, for fuck sakes, OF COURSE I'M RACIST. Racist to every single human being, that is. I hate people based on their personality, you know like you're meant to, I don't give a shit if you're African or Asian or gay or whatever. You're stupid and I hate you for that. Goodbye.

Sixthly (sithly, lawl) and final, MUST CONFESS. I used the internet A LOT for this. Because I'm terrible with semi colons. Therefore, this chapter is subject to change and you shuold look out just in case! I quoted a lot here because I just don't deal with semi colons that well either. Word complains to me a LOT (a lot in this chapter too, I mean wtf it can't tell the difference between it's and its. HELLFIRE.) about everything I do, so I just put a semi colon to shut it up usually. It works xD good enough for me. I ended up using . for most of the stuff here. Hope this is good enough and works well enough!

Lesson 5: Semi Colon

The student lowered their hand and coughed to clear their throat to proper voice out their question; "I've always wondered, how do you use a semicolon? I don't quite understand what it is or how to use it."

Mr Kirkland, you saw, didn't seem so surprised by the question that was brought up and he didn't seem that comfortable about it either. He put down the crop and moved back to the chalk board, the white chalk ready and drawing the symbol ';'.

He then turns back to the whole class, "That there," he says, "is what we call a Semi Colon, probably the most evil thing you will find in the English grammar. Now, this is what an old tutor of mine told me once when I got different comments on the state of my grammar when I was in university. He told me 'grammar can be an opinionated thing, one person might prefer it said another way to another and say it's wrong.'(1)" He quoted as he wrote the quote down on the chalk board. Or at least, he was until the chalk started screeching horribly, making everyone wince including Kirkland himself. Scowling, he threw it away and turned to bring up a smaller white board and markers.

He continued writing the quote down for you all to copy before he continued, "Now, a semi colon only really has one use; that simple use is to connect two sentences together to make one under these conditions." He writes down the points as;

1. The two sentences are felt to be too closely related to be separated by a full stop;

2. There is no connecting word which would require a comma, such as and or but;

3. The special conditions requiring a colon ':' are absent.

"Those conditions for a colon are usually of explaining a problem or elaboration to what you were talking about. Now, a semi colon can easily be replaced with a full stop if you so wish or a comma if you use the word and or but. Here's a good example." He turns back to the white board again, writing;

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.

"Straight from Dickens. But you can also write it like so, if you so wished." He writes again;

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Or;

It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times.

"A semi colon doesn't need to be used that often, so I wouldn't stress too much about it. I must admit that I had to turn to a university's help for answering this when it came to it." Mr Kirkland admits, almost seeming embarrassed by this. "But I do love the ending, it sounds very me, don't you think? They say at the bottom of the article on a semi colon; 'In any case, don't get into the habit of using a semicolon (or anything else) merely to mark a breathing space. Your reader will be perfectly capable of doing his own breathing, providing your sentence is well punctuated; punctuation is an aid to understanding, not to respiration.'(2) I rather like that." He chuckles at his own little joke, but nobody else was quite sure how to react.

He coughs slightly before continuing; "Right, but yes I wouldn't worry too much about a semi colon and definitely don't get into the habit of using it a lot. People would rather a full stop if a sentence is getting too dangerously long than a semi colon to keep it going. It might've worked in the Shakespearian era, but it won't work now."

"Also," he continues, "if you want to learn more about semi colons or are still confused about it, then I'd recommend checking out semi colon on that google thing. Or just get an Oxford guide to semi colons or something, anything from Oxford and Cambridge can't possibly be wrong!"

Somehow, you have your doubts about that, even if they were the most successful universities, possibly in the world.

"Well, that's all I'm going to explain on semi colons for the time being, it gets too complicated later on (3). Now, who else has a question?"

It's a bit rubbish, I agree. Hence, this chapter will most likely change and be edited. Probably a lot, so be aware of that and I'm sorry to bug you so much!

If you believe I've done something wrong or that I'm being stupid and know nothing of what I'm talking about. Let me know! Please bring evidence as well if you try to prove me wrong. I'd like that. It's also 1am and I'm high on tea and OH MY GOD OLYMPICS CEREMONY WAS AMAZING that's probably to blame for any typos being in there. I write better whilst high on caffeine (that's terrible). I'm making excuses up now, aren't I?

Next will probably be on how to write a good summary. This might take some time because I'm DEFINITELY not the best fanfic writer. If you have very many reviews and believe that your summary is up to scratch to help Mr Kirkland in his lesson on writing a good summary, then give me a call! Send a PM with your summary to your story and we can discuss about it and see how we can bring it into the chapter and help others write great summaries and get the attention that their story deserves! c: Mr Kirkland will give you a hug if you do this! Despite how much he protests, HE WILL GIVE YOU A HUG. Or a kiss, if you're sexy.

Until next time! Mr Kirkland and Blackie OUT!

Footnotes:

(1) this was a direct quote from a lecturer of mine that was helping us out on the general stuff on HUSK. Which was a pile of shit, by the way. But I rather liked that quote and stole it from her, even if I forgot what her name was already. People asked about what to do with a semi colon, that was her answer really. Guess even university lecturers don't have a clue.

(2) this was taken from the site mentioned above. Just google semi colon, you'll find it easily ;D seems like something I would say too, Mr Kirkland! Even if I like to breathe in my narration.

(3) again, taken from the same site.