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Beautiful vintage book spines

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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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Illustrazione di Jenny Kroik

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Worldbuilding is crazy, like welp guess I'll write an entire wiki page on a rare disease I just made up

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“I have discovered that insanity and writing are not much different; Insanity is just more bearable past midnight.”

— a.y.

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lol they weren’t 🤣

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🍃 A Midsummer Night’s Faery Tale by Wendy Froud and Terri Windling

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Sneezle is a young tree-root faery who has had the misfortune of falling asleep every year and not witnessing the Midsummer Night’s Faery Celebration. This year he’s determined to stay up and stay useful no matter what.

This was such a charming story with charming pictures of Wendy Froud’s creations. I loved how the sets were built and how much care and skill went into each doll. You’ll fall in love with Sneezle and Twig and Titania and each faery you meet, but watch out for the ones who lurk in the shadows.

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"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Keep love in your heart. A life without it, is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”

— Oscar Wilde

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coffee from my lil coffee station

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Japanese Katsu Curry – CoCoICHI Style Curry Rice