Insane Alpacas

Just an average writer who likes mythology

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Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

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➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”

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omg this is so helpful

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I need this

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Asking 'WHO ARE YOU' into the computer gives you this:

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Genuine question what would governments do if suddenly someone became immortal?

I've been wreaking my brain with this

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Everyone goes to the old tree for advice and wisdom for their worries, you're the only one who listens to it rambling beyond the answer for your worry, you start to learn this tree has a bit of a running mouth. Now every Sunday you listen in and have a weekly gossip session.

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Child: *summons demon*

Demon: hello mortal what darling wish do you want me to gran- why are you summoning me kid

Child: *shows book cause they can't speak with his summoning sigil they look so proud of themselves with their recreation on their piece of paper*

Demon: well then what do you want for your wish

Child: *shrugs*

Demon:

Child:

Demon: okay kid you're officially my kid

The two shake hands on the deal

Demon has no clue what he's gotten himself into.

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Just been doing some art and destroying my sibs in smash bros today, 😜

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Few days ago I went to a spring and I got such beautiful photos and views, I wanna share it with you.

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Character Concept

A shapeshifter who's trans and has body dysmorphia, because they have to shift into their dead gender sometimes for missions and so it sends them into dysmorphia so they have to try and stay their preferred gender but everyone is so f*cked up in making them be their dead gender.

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Mike (Michaela) and Baph, they were two seperate entities before being merged together, now they have to live with each other while they find a way to undo their curse.

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A: when you brought him/her to me I thought you meant she was just a regular human, she’s the one.

B: what?..

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My favourite character, basically a magic male angel who’s in charge of the night who becomes witch from really old times and falls in love with a demon when it is forbidden and makes an entire new worlds most dedicated to those who are different and want an escape and years after his main adventure comes back in modern day demons and angels as they tolerate each other and stay away from each other and meets new angels and demons realising basically nothing has changed except a few people like him he becomes the dad of a few demons and angels revives his demon husband and teaches his prodigy about all of his adventures.

I love this character as he’s basically my emotional support dad even though he has trauma too I can think of him just comforting me after a bad day and it just makes me feel like an actual person.

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She picked up her now rusted sword, she took a staggered step, after a 1000 years of sleep her body was not ready for standing.

"Well you’ve woken up pretty calmly." He said breaking the mystical moment.

"DAMMIT B!"