Comments on: Winter Rain, part 41 http://couragemyfriend.org/fiction/winter-rain/story/winter-rain-part-41/ by Chris Poirier Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: Showeda http://couragemyfriend.org/fiction/winter-rain/story/winter-rain-part-41/comment-page-2/#comment-537 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:03:34 +0000 http://fiction.courage-my-friend.org/?p=117#comment-537 I’m a little scared . . . Never mind the b****y quotation marks!

]]> By: Chris Poirier http://couragemyfriend.org/fiction/winter-rain/story/winter-rain-part-41/comment-page-2/#comment-536 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:39:45 +0000 http://fiction.courage-my-friend.org/?p=117#comment-536 You can’t leave the opening quote off the next paragraph, because it would look like narrative.  And if you use both the closing quote and the opening quote, it looks like you switched speakers.  So, it’s really the only option left.

]]> By: Vercin http://couragemyfriend.org/fiction/winter-rain/story/winter-rain-part-41/comment-page-1/#comment-535 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:30:11 +0000 http://fiction.courage-my-friend.org/?p=117#comment-535 Wow, that’s kinda messed up.

I spend most of my time with technical writing, these days, so I’m doing stuff like teaching co-workers where to hyphenate. Never noticed that convention before, and even seeing it, I still don’t like it :(

]]> By: Chris Poirier http://couragemyfriend.org/fiction/winter-rain/story/winter-rain-part-41/comment-page-1/#comment-534 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:16:41 +0000 http://fiction.courage-my-friend.org/?p=117#comment-534 Found a reference: http://web.njcu.edu/sites/faculty/egarvey/Content/punctuating_dialog.asp

]]> By: Drew Daniels http://couragemyfriend.org/fiction/winter-rain/story/winter-rain-part-41/comment-page-1/#comment-533 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:51:17 +0000 http://fiction.courage-my-friend.org/?p=117#comment-533 I’m going to have a agree with Chris on this one. I’ve seen it done since the day I started reading novels.

]]> By: Chris Poirier http://couragemyfriend.org/fiction/winter-rain/story/winter-rain-part-41/comment-page-1/#comment-532 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:47:34 +0000 http://fiction.courage-my-friend.org/?p=117#comment-532 Grab any paperback published in the last 100 years, I guess.  I learned all my grammar and typography by example.  :-)

]]> By: Vercin http://couragemyfriend.org/fiction/winter-rain/story/winter-rain-part-41/comment-page-1/#comment-531 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:44:52 +0000 http://fiction.courage-my-friend.org/?p=117#comment-531 Then logic would dictate that you should leave off the opening quote of the next paragraph. Otherwise you have an imbalance.

I’ve never heard of this convention before, do you know any handy online references?

]]> By: Chris Poirier http://couragemyfriend.org/fiction/winter-rain/story/winter-rain-part-41/comment-page-1/#comment-530 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:39:07 +0000 http://fiction.courage-my-friend.org/?p=117#comment-530 I figured that’s what you meant.  ;-)  The convention is that you leave the closing quote off a quotation if the next paragraph starts with the same speaker.  Ie. the paragraph break doesn’t also indicate a change in speaker.  In this case, Tiergan is the speaker in both paragraphs, hence the lack of a closing quote. 

Yes, I’m anal.  ;-)

]]> By: Vercin http://couragemyfriend.org/fiction/winter-rain/story/winter-rain-part-41/comment-page-1/#comment-529 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:31:27 +0000 http://fiction.courage-my-friend.org/?p=117#comment-529 Hi Chris — Keep looking!

“Nothing.  This is definitely the place.

I liked the “isn’t it obvious?” line too

]]> By: Chris Poirier http://couragemyfriend.org/fiction/winter-rain/story/winter-rain-part-41/comment-page-1/#comment-528 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:23:57 +0000 http://fiction.courage-my-friend.org/?p=117#comment-528 Hi Vercin — found one.  Thanks!

Sarah — I wrote it with you in mind.  ;-)

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