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2 years ago

I learned from a professional writing guide that in brackets and quotation marks to put the punctuation inside, and the heading of that section was, word for word:

Don't Leave the Croissant Out in the Cold!

I swear... I can't find it but I swear that was it...

list of writing pet peeves that will likely keep me from reading something entirely off the top of my head:

excessive use of italics to denote intensity

repetitive sentence structure pattern e.g. "sighing, she dropped the book. standing, she lamented over yet another literary disappointment."

it's instead of its

misuse of dialogue tags e.g. "yes, I'm smiling out this sentence," they smiled. "don't worry about it."

no commas in vocative cases e.g. "gege I'm bald," he murmured.

misplaced punctuation wrt dialogue. "this hurts my eyes", it moaned. "make it stop".

to be continued


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