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Despite the sources that ScottS cites, I believe this idea that you should use a new paragraph for a new person speaking is bogus. Paragraph rules are paragraph rules. You use a new paragraph for a...
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#4: Attribution notice removed
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2020-01-03T20:41:57Z (over 4 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T08:28:03Z (over 4 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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2019-12-08T08:28:03Z (over 4 years ago)
Despite the sources that ScottS cites, I believe this idea that you should use a new paragraph for a new person speaking is bogus. Paragraph rules are paragraph rules. You use a new paragraph for a new thought. A new person speaking is often a new thought, but not always. In particular, dialogue that is incidental to action can often involve more than one person speaking in the course of a single moment of action that should clearly be written in one paragraph. > Tom said "Hello, baby," while Harry whistled and Dick tipped his hat to the lady. Splitting that into three paragraphs would clearly be absurd. As would splitting the following: > Tom said "Hello, baby," while Harry exclaimed "Yowza!" and Dick whispered "Oh boy!" under his breath.
#1: Imported from external source
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2018-04-02T23:34:12Z (about 6 years ago)
Original score: 4