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DonaldthePotholer
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\\\"Fourth of all,\\\" continued Bob, \\\"the speaker and his/her actions belong in the same paragraph.\\\"\\\\\\\\
\\\"Why is that, Bob?\\\" asked Alice.\\\\\\\\
\\\"Because otherwise, the readers could get confused and mistake who is speaking.\\\"\\\\\\\\
Alice persisted, \\\"But shouldn\\\'t quotes begin a paragraph?\\\"\\\\\\\\
Bob shook his head. \\\"Not necessarily.\\\"\\\\\\\\
Alice shrugged.
As Anne M. Marble wrote in \\\"[[http://www.fmwriters.com/Visionback/Issue%205/tags.htm \\\'Stop Using Those Said Bookisms,\\\' the Editor Shriked:]]\\\", \\\"[a]s long as the action is kept with its dialogue, the reader will figure out who said what.\\\" Always starting paragraphs with quotes puts this associativity at risk. \\\'\\\'Especially\\\'\\\' with [[SturgeonsLaw the regular 90%]].
EDIT: It\\\'s manageable when there are only two people in the conversation, but then you \\\'\\\'really\\\'\\\' have to watch which sentences you end with quotation marks and which you don\\\'t; and again we\\\'re talking about the 90% here... When you have three or more in on the call, then things get \\\'\\\'real\\\'\\\' troublesome.
\\\"Why is that, Bob?\\\" asked Alice.\\\\\\\\
\\\"Because otherwise, the readers could get confused and mistake who is speaking.\\\"\\\\\\\\
Alice persisted, \\\"But shouldn\\\'t quotes begin a paragraph?\\\"\\\\\\\\
Bob shook his head. \\\"Not necessarily.\\\"\\\\\\\\
Alice shrugged.
As Anne M. Marble wrote in \\\"[[http://www.fmwriters.com/Visionback/Issue%205/tags.htm \\\'Stop Using Those Said Bookisms,\\\' the Editor Shriked:]]\\\", \\\"[a]s long as the action is kept with its dialogue, the reader will figure out who said what.\\\" Always starting paragraphs with quotes puts this associativity at risk. \\\'\\\'Especially\\\'\\\' with [[SturgeonsLaw the regular 90%]].
EDIT: It\\\'s manageable when there are only two people in the conversation, but then you \\\'\\\'really\\\'\\\' have to watch which sentences you end with quotation marks and which you don\\\'t; and again we\\\'re talking about the 90% here... When you have three or more in on the call, then things get \\\'\\\'real\\\'\\\' troublesome.
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In case people don\'t get the point, [[DontExplainTheJoke the correct way of writing]] my addition today is as follows:
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In case people don\\\'t get the point, [[DontExplainTheJoke how I would write]] my addition today is as follows:
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\\\"Fourth of all,\\\" continued Bob, \\\"the speaker and his/her actions belong in the same paragraph.\\\"\\\\\\\\
\\\"Why is that, Bob?\\\" asked Alice.\\\\\\\\
\\\"Because otherwise, the readers could get confused and mistake who is speaking.\\\"\\\\\\\\
Alice persisted, \\\"But shouldn\\\'t quotes begin a paragraph?\\\"\\\\\\\\
Bob shook his head. \\\"Not necessarily.\\\"\\\\\\\\
Alice shrugged.
As Anne M. Marble wrote in \\\"[[http://www.fmwriters.com/Visionback/Issue%205/tags.htm \\\'Stop Using Those Said Bookisms,\\\' the Editor Shriked:]]\\\", \\\"[a]s long as the action is kept with its dialogue, the reader will figure out who said what.\\\" Always starting paragraphs with quotes puts this associativity at risk. \\\'\\\'Especially\\\'\\\' with [[SturgeonsLaw the regular 90%]].
EDIT: It\\\'s manageable when there are only two people in the conversation, but then you \\\'\\\'really\\\'\\\' have to watch which sentences you end with quotation marks and which you don\\\'t; and again we\\\'re talking about the 90% here... When you have three or more in on the call, then things get \\\'\\\'\\\'real\\\'\\\' troublesome.
\\\"Why is that, Bob?\\\" asked Alice.\\\\\\\\
\\\"Because otherwise, the readers could get confused and mistake who is speaking.\\\"\\\\\\\\
Alice persisted, \\\"But shouldn\\\'t quotes begin a paragraph?\\\"\\\\\\\\
Bob shook his head. \\\"Not necessarily.\\\"\\\\\\\\
Alice shrugged.
As Anne M. Marble wrote in \\\"[[http://www.fmwriters.com/Visionback/Issue%205/tags.htm \\\'Stop Using Those Said Bookisms,\\\' the Editor Shriked:]]\\\", \\\"[a]s long as the action is kept with its dialogue, the reader will figure out who said what.\\\" Always starting paragraphs with quotes puts this associativity at risk. \\\'\\\'Especially\\\'\\\' with [[SturgeonsLaw the regular 90%]].
EDIT: It\\\'s manageable when there are only two people in the conversation, but then you \\\'\\\'really\\\'\\\' have to watch which sentences you end with quotation marks and which you don\\\'t; and again we\\\'re talking about the 90% here... When you have three or more in on the call, then things get \\\'\\\'\\\'real\\\'\\\' troublesome.
