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Writing prompt? No. Writing much delayed.

My dear friend Johnathan Harker has begun his lovely food blog as he travels through the countryside of Transylvania. Hope his journey is smooth and his business concludes swiftly!

I still remember the first time I made bread. You're supposed to let it rest for a bit, but something about the process just turned me into a ravenous animal. I remember running outside with it like a cat that's stolen from the kitchen and devouring the whole loaf like saturn eating his son. Exactly like the painting.

love love love when a particularly manipulative character is lying off their ass about something and then throws in one hauntingly genuine line

“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.”

me, when the sun is shining and I'm going on a little walk just because

actively finding out that there are people out there who have read 17776 but skimmed all the football parts. what do you mean. what do you mean. the whole thing is football. what do you mean. it’s not even like a play by play of modern american football it’s literally goofy. you skimmed the bit where people fling themselves into tornadoes? you skimmed the bit where they accidentally created a geologically impassable field? you skimmed GAME 27??? ENGAGE WITH WONDER AND CURIOSITY TOWARDS THINGS YOU MIGHT OTHERWISE ASSUME YOU ARE UNINTERESTED IN. YOU ARE ACTIVELY DEPRIVING YOURSELF OF THE NARRATIVE YOU’VE CHOSEN TO READ. YOU ARE ACTIVELY DEPRIVING YOURSELF OF THE EXPERIENCE OF DISCOVERY. READ THE FOOTBALL PARTS