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—Octavio Paz, Motion MERLIN ▸ The Sword in the Stone
THEY WEREN’T DUMMIES AND REALLY DID GO WITH MOMMY, HUH?
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2022
acrylic on canvas
30 x 40 cm
BLACK WIDOW 2021 | dir. Cate Shortland
i hear the wind across the plain a sound so strong, that calls my name
same this shit rocks
this is genuinely one of my favorite videos
i hold death's hand in mine
1 year of agatha all along, i love these witches so much
Agatha All Along poster inspired by Nosferatu key art 😉
SAVING FACE (2004) dir. Alice Wu
Black Widow dir. Cate Shortland | 2021
YEAH IM NOT OKAY!
Y'all ain't gonna keep me from my husband.
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They all look so delicious!
Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):
“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.
“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.
“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.
“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”
“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”
“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.
And!
“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”
Reblog to save a writer’s life.
Thank you
Oh my god thank you. No wonder grammarly keeps complaining about my punctuation when I boot my writing up into word counter
“But if the dialogue is being interrupted-” She cut in front of the speaker to finish for them, “The dash goes inside the quote.”
“And sometimes a character goes on a long monologue, so long it may need to be broken up into smaller paragraphs for easier reading. In that case don’t put an end quote. “But do put a beginning quote at the beginning of the next paragraph.” She paused as if in thought, “Unless it’s broken up with action. Then simply carry as normal.”