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“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

onewordtest

“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement.

joehywheelah

“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”

tenoko1

“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”

cj-amused

Things I didn’t know

prismatic-bell

“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”

jawnwats-deactivated20160713

You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.

notesoftruth

Okay, but someone please explain question marks when followed by a dialogue tag. How do?

flootzavut

“The speech tag is still part of the previous sentence,” she explained, ‘so it isn’t capitalised.“

“What do you mean?” he asked. “But there’s a full stop as part of the question mark!”

She nodded gravely. “I know!” she said. “A lot of people find this confusing. But the speech tag belongs to the line of dialogue, it’s still part of the sentence, so it’s wrong to capitalise it.”

She reblogged the post again, because she had recently read far too many potentially enjoyable stories marred by poor dialogue punctuation.

dechart

I’ve only seen this post in screenshots till now..

eddiestarchild

NOICE. Can’t wait to use this

magpiefngrl

“There are two more ways"—she pointed to the blackboard—“to punctuate interruptions. One is with the em dashes outside the quotations marks to indicate continuous speech. The action occurs at the same time as speech. The other—” she sipped from a glass of water “—is em dashes within the quotation marks to indicate interrupted speech.”

#for reference #writing #im back again #i guess

jabberwockyface

May the Force be with you.

#star wars #art by op #anidala #reylo

leiaz

okay that’s hot

#this was pretty awesome ngl #i just loved how they were a unit for a while #tros #spoilers #sw episode ix #can't wait for an hd version of the movie #probably will have dropped off the face of tumblr again by that time

kyloren

#post-TROS mood

bellaren18

This👆🏻👆🏻

#spoilers #basically.#look #at this point #i'm just waiting for jenny nicholson to make a whole video about this mess

amino-3

#best doggo #fate #fgo #cu chulainn #art by op

kayurka

#art by op #reylo #star wars

elithien

Is it too cliché to have Ren bridal-style kissing Rey under the galaxies and stars? I had so much fun playing around with this little experiment. Couldn’t help myself Do not Repost Facebook || Instagram || Etsy || Society6

#can i have this #reylo #star wars #art by op

nightblightowl

One thing I am both grateful for and…. really upset over is that for like 10 minutes, we get Ben Solo as free as he’s ever been. And just from the like, 3 clips I’ve seen, the difference in his physicality, his expressions and his energy is so completely opposite from Kylo’s… I just want to applaud Adam for giving us that. Kylo’s every movement looked so… restrained and stiff in comparison? Like he was holding in everything that he is, putting it all away. And he looked so pained most of the time. Tried to stay as stoic as he possibly could. Seething. But Ben? Fuckin’ wild XD. The determination, the confidence, the sass, the absolute badassery… Always grateful that we got to see that. But upset that that’s all we got… Just when we started seeing who he really is, they ripped him away. But what we did get was fucking beautiful. As this tweet so elegantly put it: