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Diskoh
Falling In Love With The Board
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 | July 7th, 2006 at 08:30pm I made my friend read this  |
Erin; Technophile
Post Whore
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 22699
| July 7th, 2006 at 10:09pm I have also noticed in quite a few stories that when someone has open-ended quotes[No speaker tags] there have been a lack of periods at the end.
What I've seen:
"Hello"
"How are you?'
"I am fine"
What I should see:
"Hello."
"How are you?"
"I am fine."
I don't know if this matters too much. ._.
This just bothers me somewhat. |
Banach95
Moderator
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Posts: 4821
 | July 7th, 2006 at 10:41pm Erin the sexy bitch :I have also noticed in quite a few stories that when someone has open-ended quotes[No speaker tags] there have been a lack of periods at the end.
What I've seen:
"Hello"
"How are you?'
"I am fine"
What I should see:
"Hello."
"How are you?"
"I am fine."
I don't know if this matters too much. ._.
This just bothers me somewhat.
Like I see this ALOT as an edit here... That too a pet peeve of mine... If it's a question or exclaimation those punctation marks are used... it's like what do people have against periods? 
"Where did we go?"
"I'm here!"
"Okay" |
VF Lover!
King For A Couple Of Days
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Gender: -
Posts: 2901 | July 10th, 2006 at 10:19pm The dot-dot-dot thing is called an elipses
or however you spell it. |
Merci Pour Le Venin
Idiot
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Posts: 662 | July 14th, 2006 at 05:13pm thats helpful when i post mine i will make sure not to srcew them up |
caz_dirnt
Geek
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Posts: 104
| July 22nd, 2006 at 01:22am It's great to have some descriptions in, but sometimes people take it too far. You don't really need 3 adjectives to describe one thing. Sometimes things even work well without any/much description.
There's one thing that I found really useful whilst writing stories. I read some of what I 'd written and made a list of words I'd used a lot so I could look them up in a thesaurus and find alternatives. I haven't changed many yet, but I have used those words less so it does help. I also made a list of speech words that I have out whenever I'm writing, which helps me to avoid using the same speech words over and over again. I think it's a pretty good idea and it works so gove it a go. |
~shattered~scattered~
Shoot Me, I'm A Newbie
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 17
| July 30th, 2006 at 04:31am dude, it's like...english class or something. Ew. |
xstarry_nightsx
Shoot Me, I'm A Newbie
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Posts: 56 | July 30th, 2006 at 09:01pm ~shattered~scattered~:dude, it's like...english class or something. Ew.
 agreed |
Nowhere Girl
Geek
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 276 | August 2nd, 2006 at 08:16pm xstarry_nightsx:~shattered~scattered~:dude, it's like...english class or something. Ew.
agreed :mark: |
Pickle
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| August 2nd, 2006 at 08:19pm Nowhere Girl:xstarry_nightsx:~shattered~scattered~:dude, it's like...english class or something. Ew.
agreed :mark:
Then please don't write a story if you can't appreciate it or use it. |
Nowhere Girl
Geek
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 276 | August 2nd, 2006 at 08:23pm Pickle:Nowhere Girl:xstarry_nightsx:~shattered~scattered~:dude, it's like...english class or something. Ew.
agreed :mark:
Then please don't write a story if you can't appreciate it or use it. I don't write stories...  so don't get your socks in a knot! |
Pickle
Geek
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Posts: 461
| August 2nd, 2006 at 08:27pm Then why are you posting in the stories thread that deals with writing a story if you don't write them?
And I'm not wearing socks, thank you very much love. |
Nowhere Girl
Geek
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 276 | August 2nd, 2006 at 08:29pm Pickle:Then why are you posting in the stories thread that deals with writing a story if you don't write them? I was originally reading the thread and appreciating the good grammar when I came across a funny post, so I replied. |
Pickle
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Posts: 461
| August 2nd, 2006 at 08:34pm With a smiley to a kind of disrespectful post. . . . gee, you put me in my place. |
Banach95
Moderator
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Posts: 4821
| August 2nd, 2006 at 08:46pm Move along folks... Nothing to see here... |
Diskoh
Falling In Love With The Board
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 8682
| August 3rd, 2006 at 12:22am Pickle:Then why are you posting in the stories thread that deals with writing a story if you don't write them?
And I'm not wearing socks, thank you very much love.
She could of been looking for a nice story to read. -shrugs- |
Erin; Technophile
Post Whore
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 22699
| August 10th, 2006 at 05:00am I've been seeing a new trend in punctuation mistakes and to put it bluntly, it's really pissing me off 
I've seen in multiple stories that people are putting periods and commas outside of quotations, replacing periods at the end of sentence with commas and putting periods outside of quotations when there are already exclamation points or question marks inside of them.
What I've seen:
Elle had a suspicous look on her face. "He's in a band?" She asked.
"What are they called?". Tara asked.
"I forgpt, anyway I goota go to French"
"Yeah im off to drama".
Elle sighed,
"Art, here I come".
Elle grabbed her sketch book and pencil case out of her locker. The made her way to Art class,
"Elle, sit with me", Ash said,
What I should see:
Elle had a suspicous look on her face. "He's in a band?" She asked.
"What are they called?" Tara asked.
"I forgot, anyway, I gotta go to French."
"Yeah I'm off to drama."
Elle sighed.
"Art, here I come."
Elle grabbed her sketch book and pencil case out of her locker. The made her way to Art class.
"Elle, sit with me," Ash said. |
Pickle
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Posts: 461
| August 10th, 2006 at 07:15pm Oh! I know! It drives me up the wall! I can't stand it! I want to scream when I see it! Do you not listen in English class? Have you never read a book or magazine in your life? How could you think that's right? |
paperwings.
Falling In Love With The Board
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 6917
| August 10th, 2006 at 09:43pm I see alot of:
"Hi", she said and smiled
"Come with me to the store", I told her
Sometimes the entire story is like that. . .which is very frustrating. |
Pickle
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Gender: -
Posts: 461
| August 10th, 2006 at 10:20pm That's why I can't be an editor. I would send every single story back and scream 'Fix it you moron!'. |
