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.
Confess your literary sins.
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I refuse to place exclamation and question mark inside of a double quote
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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
Not
That second way just looks r-slurred to me.
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Let's rearrange it so the quotation is in the middle
I don't see a good reason for quotation rules to work differently at the end of a sentence.
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