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It doesn't matter if your book is 95% one person speaking. If your character is speaking aloud, and especially if you have a second person who interrupts even once a chapter, you must have punctuat...
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#4: Attribution notice removed
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System
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2019-12-13T12:00:28Z (about 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T04:04:05Z (about 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
It doesn't matter if your book is 95% one person speaking. If your character is speaking aloud, and especially if you have a second person who interrupts even once a chapter, you must have punctuation indicating that someone is speaking. Also, I very strongly recommend that you _don't_ just present your story as a wall of 95% one person speaking aloud. If you want Cath to tell her story, make it from Cath's POV, and have her telling the reader instead. Then you can skip the punctuation, because she's _writing_ to the audience, not speaking aloud. If Cath is not your POV narrator, then break up her speech with stage business, action tags, and more interruptions from the other person.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2015-02-25T11:01:36Z (almost 10 years ago)
Original score: 3