That's the kind of thing, yeah. Essentially treating dialogue as any other kind of action, and paragraph breaking for dialogue as you would for...
There are plenty of excellent writers who don't line break for each change of speaker. But the norm for commercial fiction is to do so. I've...
The only counterexample I can think of is when a period is used to abbreviate, such as in A.I., etc., and such.
Same as if it were dialogue: "Was he going to kiss her?" she said. not "Was he going to kiss her?," she said.
Which is, let's face it, eminently more sensible. There are other English rules about commas that make no sense. For instance, according to...
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I once quit TV as an experiment because I felt it was a time-sink. The TV licensing letters were so persistent and threatening I haven't had a TV...
Why would someone impersonate Pynchon?
Probably a non-existent version of Nabokov. I misunderstood the ending of one of his short stories. When my gf at the time pointed out I'd got the...
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Surely you jest! This handsome devil is Dale Winton, entertainer par excellence, host of the British version of Supermarket Sweep among other...
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