mapipipi

[mapipipi]

Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

✧

➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”

[mapipipi]

Some resources for those writing medieval-type stories:

list of medieval jobs

more medieval jobs

lords of the manor

ladies of the manor

medieval ladies

medieval weapons

medieval names

more medieval names

guide to medieval terms

more medieval terms

how to write sword-fight scenes

armor

[mapipipi]

augustus caesar was only 21 at the battle of philippi? he should have been at the clubbb

[mapipipi]

currently maybe possibly single-handedly crashing whatever servers eton hosts its archived student newspapers on because me and a friend are getting obsessed with a single outspoken prefect from 1883

[mapipipi]

[mapipipi]

this is my personal blog just for my little silly things

@catepilled is my asoiaf sideblog!

[mapipipi]

[mapipipi]

i am sooo normal about criston's loyalty to the greens haha i swear

[mapipipi]

me sitting down to discuss asoiaf with targaryen criticals, sansa understanders, theon enthusiasts, elia lovers, rhaegar haters, cersei scholars, stannisdavos girls and infertile conqueror truthers

[mapipipi]

The Greens

HOTD 1X08//Electra a Sophocles Play//Succession 4X10//HOTD 1X06// Quote by honeytuesday//HOTD 2X01//Quote from HOTD 1X09//HOTD 1X09// 'Cain and Abel' by Orazio Riminaldi// The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker//HOTD 2X10//Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral//Unknown//HOTD 01X03// HOTD 01X06//Quote by Lyra//HOTD 01X02//Quote from HOTD 1X06//HOTD 1X09//Quote by Richard Siken//HOTD 1X07// Quote from HOTD 2X01//The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice//HOTD 1X09//‘Ivan the Terrible and Son’ by Richard Siken//the guessing game: a mothers love by Silas Denver Melvin

[mapipipi]

I’m so normal about this

[mapipipi]

Otto & Aegon; grandson, pawn, king, drunk. . .

eros the bittersweet, anne carson / visions of excess, georges bataille / dreams of clytemnestra, dacia maraini / cut, catherine lacey / strangers, ethel cain / house of the dragon (2022–)

P.S. this is why i love tg. you can mix and match characters and still end up with some of the most juicy, fucked up, sickeningly doomed family dynamics known to man

[mapipipi]

ALICENT AND HER CHILDREN; “I have sinned / I do not wish to hear of it.”

sharp objects, gillian flynn / unknown / holy family, pompeo batoni / richard iii, byam shaw / dreams of clytemnestra, dacia maraini / bad sun (moon version), the bravery / ivan the terrible and his son ivan, ilya repin / elektra, sophocles / above the clouds of pompeii, bear’s den / novitiate (2017) / poplar street, chen chen / time within time: the diaries 1970-1986, andrei tarkovsky / class of 2013, mitski / house of the dragon (2022–), s02e01 and s02e02

[mapipipi]

Everything about this scene is stunning.

[mapipipi]

THIS IS MY BROTHER, I NEED A SHOVEL TO LOVE HIM.

[mapipipi]

(affectionate)

imagine if we had gotten the hotd equivalent of the roy siblings kitchen scene. one last time the siblings are together before the betrayals and the blood and the pain and the death and the fire comes….. imagine if viserys had been more like logan. imagine if the characters were allowed to be both painfully human and vile. imagine if

[mapipipi]