Comments on: Dialogue and Punctuation http://purplehearts.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/dialogue-and-punctuation/ Women on the Writing Path Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:51:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: A Year’s Worth of Learning « Purple Hearts http://purplehearts.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/dialogue-and-punctuation/#comment-4415 A Year’s Worth of Learning « Purple Hearts Wed, 28 May 2008 19:33:47 +0000 http://purplehearts.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/dialogue-and-punctuation/#comment-4415 [...] good it is. Dialogue punctuation seems to be a specific problem the more people’s stuff I CP. HERE is a post on how to properly punctuate dialogue. 7. SENTENCE STRUCTURE: Often when trying to get the [...] [...] good it is. Dialogue punctuation seems to be a specific problem the more people’s stuff I CP. HERE is a post on how to properly punctuate dialogue. 7. SENTENCE STRUCTURE: Often when trying to get the [...]

]]> By: bphearts http://purplehearts.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/dialogue-and-punctuation/#comment-1627 bphearts Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:53:40 +0000 http://purplehearts.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/dialogue-and-punctuation/#comment-1627 Oh, the embarrassment of getting caught in writer short hand. CPing - - if you see CP it means we're talking about a Critique Partner - someone you trade stuff with and do a 'rip apart and repair' type of thing. It can be anything from a cold read to see if you're on target to specifically asked questions such as 'Does my POV (point-of-view) slip?' or 'Am I Telling instead of Showing?' And, you are absolutely correct about the dialogue paragraph rules ---- although, I have read some recent Literary Fiction that has chosen to play by the old rules lately and have more than one person speaking in a paragraph. Please Please Please don't pick this rule to break - it's very difficult on the reader and as a writer it's extremely difficult to keep the rhythm of conversation clean. Thanks for the comment and question! Hope your son is enjoying the class! Oh, the embarrassment of getting caught in writer short hand. CPing - - if you see CP it means we’re talking about a Critique Partner - someone you trade stuff with and do a ‘rip apart and repair’ type of thing.

It can be anything from a cold read to see if you’re on target to specifically asked questions such as ‘Does my POV (point-of-view) slip?’ or ‘Am I Telling instead of Showing?’

And, you are absolutely correct about the dialogue paragraph rules —- although, I have read some recent Literary Fiction that has chosen to play by the old rules lately and have more than one person speaking in a paragraph.

Please Please Please don’t pick this rule to break - it’s very difficult on the reader and as a writer it’s extremely difficult to keep the rhythm of conversation clean.

Thanks for the comment and question! Hope your son is enjoying the class!

]]> By: Free Graphics http://purplehearts.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/dialogue-and-punctuation/#comment-1594 Free Graphics Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:52:49 +0000 http://purplehearts.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/dialogue-and-punctuation/#comment-1594 This is very nicely done. My son in 11th grade wrote a short story for English class and he's in Honors English and has always done well and he had no idea how to punctuate dialog. Actually the one item that you didn't cover which he also didn't know was that each new speaker should be a new paragraph. Anyway, while I knew he had it wrong, I didn't remember the rules well enough to state them and looked on the internet. Your explanation and examples are the best I've found so far! But what is CPing? This is very nicely done. My son in 11th grade wrote a short story for English class and he’s in Honors English and has always done well and he had no idea how to punctuate dialog.

Actually the one item that you didn’t cover which he also didn’t know was that each new speaker should be a new paragraph. Anyway, while I knew he had it wrong, I didn’t remember the rules well enough to state them and looked on the internet. Your explanation and examples are the best I’ve found so far!

But what is CPing?

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