Confess your literary sins.

  • I ended a line of dialogue with a double exclamation point and I'm not changing it

  • the second draft of my manuscript had 849 em-dashes in it

  • I mentally swap the races of characters in Golden Age sci-fi to make it more interesting for the modern audience (me)

  • I make fun of audiobooks, but I actually just can't concentrate on them. :marseynouautism:

!writecel !bookworms

33
Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

I refuse to place exclamation and question mark inside of a double quote

Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

I mean it bugs me sometimes too but... Isn't this just proper writing? Like if I was asking someone if I got a quote right, I'd say

>Did you call those kids "r-slurred?"

Not

>Did you call those kids "r-slurred"?

That second way just looks r-slurred to me.

Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

Let's rearrange it so the quotation is in the middle

>Is "r-slurred?" what you called those kids

I don't see a good reason for quotation rules to work differently at the end of a sentence.

Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

Link copied to clipboard
Action successful!
Error, please refresh the page and try again.