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Is there any "official" rule that I should keep in mind when formatting character dialog? Line breaks, placement of quotes, mixing dialog with action descriptions etc. For example, I want to build...
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System
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2019-12-08T01:18:13Z (over 4 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Ido Tamir
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2019-12-08T01:18:13Z (over 4 years ago)
Is there any "official" rule that I should keep in mind when formatting character dialog? Line breaks, placement of quotes, mixing dialog with action descriptions etc. For example, I want to build a sentence like: "Look Jones, _this_ will be yours someday" and describe the speaker point to some building during the word "this". How would you format such a sentence? 1. "Look Jones," Dan pointed at the castle, "this will be yours someday" 2. "Look Jones, this" Dan pointed at the castle "will be yours someday" 3. etc. As you can see, I have problems with comma placement, quote placement and general formatting. Advice?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2011-02-27T12:12:45Z (about 13 years ago)
Original score: 12