Haha, thanks.
From what I read on your profile, you seem pretty cool, too.(:
I'm addicted to Vitamin Water, too. I collect the labels. XP
Yeah... I'm weird.
No, it's not too personal. All my friends know about my OCD issues. Well, for one thing all my pens and pencils in my pencil case have to face a certain way. And my makeup is organized into sections and if anyone moves lets say the eye shadow to the eyeliner I have freak attacks. I have to have all my money unfolded and facing the right way in my wallet. I have a morning ritual that no one can get me out of. I count when I brush my teeth and I count when I walk. My OCD basically revolves around control.
Sure, sure. I've got dialogue down pretty well. So, say you're having a conversation, just two people.
"Hello," Janny said.
"How are you?" Devin replied.
Okay, so when Janny said hello, there was a comma in the quote because hello is a fragment. But when Devin said how are you there was a question mark because his sentence wasn't a fragment. In dialogue you're allowed to have fragments but you must always use commas and not periods but the tag afterwards must end in a period. Like so:
"Jesus[b],[/b]" Kallie cursed[b].[/b]
This is incorrect:
"Jesus[b].[/b]" Kallie cursed[b],[/b]
Because Kallie cursed is a sentence. It has a subject and verb so that will always end in a period.
Next is when someone is talking for a long while, like so:
"But mom!" Jenny whined. "I've been dying to go to this party!"
When you write dialogue that is continuing you must keep in mind what is a sentence and what is a fragment. You can continue like that for as long as you please as long as you use the correct punctuation, like this:
"And," Mia breathed heavily. "I was like no way!" She threw her hands up. "And he was like," she deepened her voice. "Yes way!"
Do you see what I mean? And he was like isn't a sentence so it ends in a comma. Another thing you should remember that is very important is this:
"But," [b]she[/b] cried.
"But," [b]She[/b] cried.
The second one is incorrect. Because the dialogue ends in a comma the tag afterwards must be lowercase unless it is a name like so:
"But," Jenny cried.
That would be capitalized.
Same goes for sentences:
"I know how to tie my shoes." [b]She[/b] said.
That would be capitalized because [b]She[/b] starts a new sentence.
From what I read on your profile, you seem pretty cool, too.(:
I'm addicted to Vitamin Water, too. I collect the labels. XP
Yeah... I'm weird.