This applies only to the US, (I don’t know the rules in other countries), but I consistently see a period inside the quote only to be followed by a capitalized dialog tag. “Stop it this instant.” He said. vs. “Stop it this instant,” he said. “he said” is part of the sentence and as such should separated by a comma and the dialog tag not capitalized.
It is, literally, no extra work to do it correctly. Perhaps it makes no difference for 80% of the readers, but that mean 20% get pulled out of the story.
And the misuse of ellipses – don’t get me started. Two hundred thirty-six ellipses in a 3500 word story is….
(I'm not talking about an occasional error. No one can catch them all. I'm talking about the authors who's standard practice is to put the periods inside the quote, then add the dialog tag.)
Is this something Literotica editors (I'm talking about the editors an author asks to look at his/her manuscript. The editor of this fantastic site has many more important things to do.) address when working on someone’s manuscript?
It is, literally, no extra work to do it correctly. Perhaps it makes no difference for 80% of the readers, but that mean 20% get pulled out of the story.
And the misuse of ellipses – don’t get me started. Two hundred thirty-six ellipses in a 3500 word story is….
(I'm not talking about an occasional error. No one can catch them all. I'm talking about the authors who's standard practice is to put the periods inside the quote, then add the dialog tag.)
Is this something Literotica editors (I'm talking about the editors an author asks to look at his/her manuscript. The editor of this fantastic site has many more important things to do.) address when working on someone’s manuscript?
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