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Q&A Should I use ellipses in narration?

I want to indicate a dramatic pause in the narration of my fiction, but the rules I've read say that ellipses are reserved for "" quoted dialog. This would be the example I'm looking at: N...

0 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by user1316538‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

Question fiction grammar
#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T04:12:07Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/16941
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar user1316538‭ · 2019-12-08T04:12:07Z (over 4 years ago)
I want to indicate a dramatic pause in the narration of my fiction, but the rules I've read say that ellipses are reserved for "" quoted dialog.

This would be the example I'm looking at:

> Normally he could tolerate it by spending his day in the far reaches of the forest or hiding in his office that he’d built in the mountains to the south, but now he had to... talk to people. People he loathed talking to.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2015-04-23T04:56:17Z (about 9 years ago)
Original score: 3