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I legitimately cannot believe that Love, Victor really looked at the queer audience and was like: “I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna give them the ‘THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED” trope” in this the clusterfuck year that has been 2020

It took me a while to figure out what type of gay Víctor was... and after he snuck out to another state with complete strangers he never met in person to crash in their place uninvited bc he need a hug I’ve come to conclusion he’s a disaster gay.

“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement. 

“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”

“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”

Things I didn’t know

“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”

You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.

Okay, but someone please explain question marks when followed by a dialogue tag. How do?

I’ve only seen this post in screenshots till now..

NOICE. Can’t wait to use this

“There are two more ways"—she pointed to the blackboard—“to punctuate interruptions. One is with the em dashes outside the quotations marks to indicate continuous speech. The action occurs at the same time as speech. The other—” she sipped from a glass of water “—is em dashes within the quotation marks to indicate interrupted speech.”

a gay kid randomly slid into simon’s dms and simon immediately went ‘oh shit im a dad now BABE WHERE ARE YOU WE HAVE A SON’ and i think that’s beautiful

Being a writer is lying in bed at two am, waiting for sleep, only to be met with two new characters, clarity for a plotline, and an entire scene concept for a novel that isn’t your current project.