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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 ask 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.”

The jank of mini-Belizabeth-Brassica’s upsettingly long neck is hilarious.

It’s funny cause it doesn’t show up in the character art.

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Ah, yes, Veggie priest #2

Fun fact: while doing research for this post (a perfectly normal thing to do) I learned that to make prune juice, you must first dehydrate the plums, rehydrate them, and then juice them, meaning both Boimler families would have to dry out fruit regardless. Do with this information what you will.

I’m imagining a scenario in which Boimler meets Worf and introduces himself as Ensign Boimler, and Worf says he recognizes him and Boims gets excited for a second until Worf explains that he recognizes the name Boimler from the brand of prune juice that comes from Bradward’s family’s vineyard.

FACT: People make resin die.

FACT: Some craftsmen, NOT ALL OF THEM, some craftsmen are just people in their basement putting resin into moulds and selling those babies online with the care and precision of a whiskey licked blacksmith in the wild west.

FACT: It's not unlikely for a lot of those dice to be incorrectly filled, uneven or Weighted.

FACT: If I was to buy a whole bunch of these die with many of them being weighted, some of them would be weighted to low numbers and some to high.

FACT: It is reasonable and likely for me to gravitate towards the die that give me High Numbers and go "oh these are my special dice" "oh this one is blessed by the goddess" and to remove low rolling dice from my line up.

FACT: This is not a phenomenon that occurs as often with metal die.

FACT: If I was a player who staunchly defended my metal dice while everyone else at the table used resin or fanmade dice, if I was a player who stood by my dice through thick or thin, refusing to switch dice out from my roster, if I was a player who had Publicly claimed my loyalty to metal dice on many occasions, I would statistically roll worse.

FACT: Brian Murphy does not have just as good a chance as rolling as any of you.

Inspired by this post with an astute observation

My sincere hope for this season is that the appearance of a Cruller ancestor will grant Lou the dubious honor (through Delissandro’s careful charm and seduction) of fucking Calroy’s mom.

Friends, Romans, Lovely Contestants, lend me your ears. The most recent Game Changer episode was puzzling, to be sure. But I ask you, what was the theme of the episode?

A time loop.

And what is the unofficial logo of Game Changer?

A LOOP DE LOOP

IT’S BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME