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laccoff_mawning reacted to Piisfun's post in the thread Multiple people saying the same thing at once: thoughts about double-double quotes? with
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Contrary to what some people have said above, this is an actual technique. It's not very common, and in fact it is more common in games... -
laccoff_mawning reacted to LiteraryWho's post in the thread Multiple people saying the same thing at once: thoughts about double-double quotes? with Love.
If you really want to get "this is a crowd speaking" front and center in the readers mind, you can put the action of the group ahead of...
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laccoff_mawning reacted to Ararara's post in the thread Multiple people saying the same thing at once: thoughts about double-double quotes? with Like.
Never seen it, don't think most people would recognize it for what you want it to mean, and I wouldn't use it
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laccoff_mawning reacted to Jerynboe's post in the thread Multiple people saying the same thing at once: thoughts about double-double quotes? with Like.
This is an entirely new concept to me and seems utterly unneeded given that the context already implies multiple people saying the same...
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laccoff_mawning reacted to JordanIda's post in the thread Multiple people saying the same thing at once: thoughts about double-double quotes? with Haha.
If you can't find it in the Oxford Guide to Style or the Little Brown Handbook, it's post-literary newspeak balderdash. All 50,000...
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laccoff_mawning reacted to triflight's post in the thread Multiple people saying the same thing at once: thoughts about double-double quotes? with Like.
Unlike everyone else it seems, I have seen this before, I think only in translations though. I wonder if it's some remnant of...
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laccoff_mawning reacted to PancakesWitch's post in the thread Multiple people saying the same thing at once: thoughts about double-double quotes? with Haha.
This is a such a non issue, you're worrying over nothing, it doesn't matter which way you use it. Nobody will care.
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I just remembered something crucial for artists like us. We have forgotten how to get all the recognition and popularity. That being: We...
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laccoff_mawning posted the thread Multiple people saying the same thing at once: thoughts about double-double quotes? in Discussions & Writing Tips.So I wanted to write a line where multiple people say the same thing at once. A quick google search suggests I should use a dialogue tag...
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laccoff_mawning reacted to CharlesEBrown's post in the thread Writing From A Summoners POV with Like.
So basically Ash Ketchem of Pokemon? Has to find his subjects and "capture" or negotiate with them first, or does he just have the...
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For one example, look at Pokemon or similar. More broadly, for combat, think of the MC as the tactician, the commander controlling the...
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You do you, but outside of attacks on your personal morality and bots trying to get you into a discord chat, I find myself having...
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laccoff_mawning reacted to Grizzly18's post in the thread Should we reveal infrequent POV shifts? with Like.
It doesn’t have to be overt but a line break with an actual line or a line of symbols like little diamonds ♦️ like that would be nice...
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laccoff_mawning reacted to Zinless's post in the thread Should we reveal infrequent POV shifts? with Like.
I don't usually announce a POV change mid-chapter. I feel like announcing POV changes like: takes away the immersion a bit, even if...
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laccoff_mawning reacted to Makimaam's post in the thread Should we reveal infrequent POV shifts? with Like.
My stance wouldn’t change. In fact, I find it more intuitive if you want to be clear from the start, just anchor perspective as soon as...