Querilous over quotations; griping about grammar.

[glynndah]

I'm having issues with the formatting of my story. I'm fine with the content and don't want any help with that aspect of the editing process but for the life of me I cannot figure out the problem with quotation marks and subsequent actions. I'm in absolutely no hurry {I forgot I'd submitted the story back in 2022.} If you would like to see if you can figure out what I'm doing wrong, I'd love the help. Thank you.

 

[Small_Island]

A little more info would be helpful.
For example, MS Word, Apple Pages, Google Docs, etc.?
You mentioned submitting the story in 2022 - was it rejected for formatting and been sitting all this time? That sounds like something I'd do. :-D

I've seen some comprehensive answers on formatting issues by other writers/editors, so hopefully one of them will reach out to you.
If you haven't had any help in the next couple of days, DM me and I'll see what I can do to help.

 

[StillStunned]

I'm having issues with the formatting of my story. I'm fine with the content and don't want any help with that aspect of the editing process but for the life of me I cannot figure out the problem with quotation marks and subsequent actions. I'm in absolutely no hurry {I forgot I'd submitted the story back in 2022.} If you would like to see if you can figure out what I'm doing wrong, I'd love the help. Thank you.

I had a quick look at your latest story, and the quotation marks and related punctuation seem to be perfectly fine. Better than many stories here on Lit, in fact.

 

[glynndah]

A little more info would be helpful.
For example, MS Word, Apple Pages, Google Docs, etc.?
You mentioned submitting the story in 2022 - was it rejected for formatting and been sitting all this time? That sounds like something I'd do. :-D

I've seen some comprehensive answers on formatting issues by other writers/editors, so hopefully one of them will reach out to you.
If you haven't had any help in the next couple of days, DM me and I'll see what I can do to help.

I simply forgot all about it. Life, yanno. Thank you for the offer. I may take you up on it. Maybe another set of eyes could help.

 

[glynndah]

I had a quick look at your latest story, and the quotation marks and related punctuation seem to be perfectly fine. Better than many stories here on Lit, in fact.

I know. I usually can very easily comply with Lauren's rules so the trouble I'm having with this one has me stumped. It's not an "important" story so I may just pull it completely and start from scratch. It's a fairly short story so if you do have time to look it over, I'd appreciate it.

 

[StillStunned]

Sorry, but I'm cutting back on editing and beta-reading. It's taken up huge amounts of my time over the past year, at the expense of my own writing.

I'm sure someone else will be happy to take a look, though.

Good luck!

 

[000zing]

I'm having issues with the formatting of my story. I'm fine with the content and don't want any help with that aspect of the editing process but for the life of me I cannot figure out the problem with quotation marks and subsequent actions. I'm in absolutely no hurry {I forgot I'd submitted the story back in 2022.} If you would like to see if you can figure out what I'm doing wrong, I'd love the help. Thank you.

Since it's the first word, I do believe we can say fairly confidently that you're doing "querulous" wrong, for starters.

 

[Lumiere_Amie]

I'm having issues with the formatting of my story. I'm fine with the content and don't want any help with that aspect of the editing process but for the life of me I cannot figure out the problem with quotation marks and subsequent actions. I'm in absolutely no hurry {I forgot I'd submitted the story back in 2022.} If you would like to see if you can figure out what I'm doing wrong, I'd love the help. Thank you.

Maybe this post will help you figure out the problems you're having. https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-make-characters-talk

 

[grey228]

I'm having issues with the formatting of my story. I'm fine with the content and don't want any help with that aspect of the editing process but for the life of me I cannot figure out the problem with quotation marks and subsequent actions. I'm in absolutely no hurry {I forgot I'd submitted the story back in 2022.} If you would like to see if you can figure out what I'm doing wrong, I'd love the help. Thank you.

IIRC, any quoted dialog is usually followed by who was yapping. I see why you have some lines stand alone, as your next paragraph tells what (you) the narrator, it's doing in response to the spoken line.

I think part of it is you do it frequently; it is how it is though, as you're going for a sit-com / TV show talky story (I'm referring to your first 2025 story BTW)

Looks fine as it is. If people are confused, they might need to re-read it again, that's all.