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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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Uk peeps!! Let’s get this going! 🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧

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same

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'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

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im always suuuuper chill when i see that service unavailable page

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Friendly reminder how to actually use band aids on fingertips because we see people doing it wrong all the time.

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“My body, my choice” only makes sense when someone else’s life isn’t at stake.

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x I plead the fifth

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graves grow no green that you can use.

gwendolyn brooks

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downloading a fic when ao3 dies (when you have the link)

looks like ao3 is down again and i was in the middle of a multi chapter fic when it died on me.

and if that happens to you, this is what you can do to download the fic:

copy paste https://download.archiveofourown.org/downloads/00000000/fic.html in your browser url

replace the pink bit with the number right after /works (that's the work id)

for instance, in https://archiveofourown.org/works/44970790/chapters/113154673 the highlighted bit (44970790) would be the number you swap for the 0s

the download link will look like https://download.archiveofourown.org/downloads/44970790/fic.html

if you want the fic to be downloaded as an epub instead, use .epub at the end of that link

it should start downloading on your device

i'm sure a bunch of people know this and use it but in case you don't, hope this helps

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In my humble opinion

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While I agree that cruelty is a major part of it, I don't think it's the actual point.

From what I've seen, collecting more people to jump on a person that anti's deem 'bad' is the point.

Cruelty is the choice of method they use, and it works because others don't want that cruelty pointed at them.

The majority of people will say no to someone politely asking something especially if they appear distant by just providing logic (even if it's heavily flawed), but if someone starts screaming 'think of the children! They're monsters hell bent on profiting off of survivors!' and starts waving pitchforks and torches at /one/ person or a small group of people, then others are more likely to step forward and join them.

And if you've been swallowed into a group of antis and you go 'huh, this actually is a bit much' then you're /inside/ the mob filled with pitchforks and torches.

Realistically I think the major issue is how people's online life has been so intrinsically embedded into their personal life. And how as a society we're unable to separate the two.

You don't walk up to someone watching Game of Thrones and go 'ah so you support rape and sexual assault and beheadings and etc.' we've moved on from that, but now it's 'ah you read fanfic about X so you support x'

It's the same old song and dance, and eventually it'll move on from fanfic to something else. It sucks, it really fucking sucks, but it's a a cycle that I highly doubt will be broken.

Realistically, the only thing that can stop antis is basically what we're doing now. Talking about it, supporting creators that are being targeted, showing them that they're the minority so no not everyone thinks like that and for fucks sake would you just pick up any kind of history book and use whatever critical thinking skills you've got and fuck off?

this callout couldve been a block button

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you people will just. say anything

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense, Pt. 1"

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I’m visiting my friend right now in her 18th century home she’s restoring where the lights don’t work in one part of the house, creeping to the bathroom like some sort of haunt, feeling for the walls with rising dread, utterly lost in the perfect darkness, like Jonathan Harker in Dracula’s castle, if Jonathan Harker were the sort of person to trip and stand there cringing in the night as his can of trader joe’s sparkling rhubarb-strawberry juice bangs all the way down the oaken staircase, one step at a time, the cacophony of a freight train, and then proceed to practically crawl through the remaining dark to the bathroom for a washcloth, to wipe up the trader joe’s sparkling rhubarb-strawberry juice before it can soak into the wood floor, with the fevered terror of lady macbeth hallucinating blood on her hands