By smugly correcting minor spelling mistakes and typos on people’s posts. It must be working, there’s a large crowd gathered outside my house with a guillotine. I wonder who they want to put in it? I’m going outside to see now.
By smugly correcting minor spelling mistakes and typos on people’s posts. It must be working, there’s a large crowd gathered outside my house with a guillotine. I wonder who they want to put in it? I’m going outside to see now.
Your paragraph would have stronger emphasis with a semicolon after ‘working’, not a comma.
It must be working; there's a large crowd gathered outside my house with a guillotine.A semicolon is used to separate two independent clauses that are closely related in thought but could stand as separate sentences. It offers a stronger pause than a comma but is less final than a period.