āThis is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,ā she said with a smile.
āUnless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.ā He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement.Ā
āHowever,ā she added, shifting in her seat, āitās appropriate to use a comma if thereās action in the middle of a sentence.ā
āTrue.ā She glanced at the others. āYou can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.ā
Things I didnāt know
āAndāā she waved a pen as though to underline her statementāāif youāre interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.ā
You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didnāt know any of this when writing their stories.
Annnd itās been a year.
Might queue that up again because this knowledge is super needed all the time.
Seriously tho. A bunch of my friends start writing fanfiction and that's great, I support them, I help whenever I can (I've been writing for 5 years), but there are times when I help them with things like that and they literally get butthurt (some not all).
Like come on guys, I'm just trying to help your grammar a small bit, everything else is fine.
