Hang On 🙋 Lately I've Been Seeing An Alarming Number Of People On Here, Including Some Of My Own Followers,

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

Catch these hands!

or not....

Did some drawing of my spidersona (still working out the design)

Inktober 2024 day 31

Theyre all jus happy to stab something

Reblog if your blog is boopable-safe so you can get all the (probably new) achievements. I don’t care about notes I just want boops

Inktobery 2023 day 1

Snack on the subway to save time

Jerry brought a moth into the store!

I’ve always wanted to do one of these and I decided this year I’m going to try to do as many art things as I can. I’m not putting an end date on this and if you do draw the boys pls tag me and use the hashtag #monster cowboys dtiys and I’ll try to reblog all of them💚🫶

reblog if you need a hug

can i get a hell yea if you’re still gonna be wasting your time on this website in 2014