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To Do List Trauma

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Sophie needs a new smart phone but…

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Last week I cleared a surprising number of difficulties presented by my Continuous To Do list. I was really pleased with myself. Some of them had been accumulating Reasons Why They had to Wait for months.

Let joy be unconfined, then.

Ah. But the inevitable corollorary is that I’ve pretty much hit the bottom of the barrel as far as The List is concerned. And they are the real nightmares.

Two little kids reading book under blanket with long fingered black spooky figures reaching for them from the wall behind.

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Two things in particular have been haunting my sleep and bringing me out in hives: finishing a story; buying a new smart phone. My resistance to both has pretty much reached neurosis level.

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Punctuating Dialogue (3) the Full Punctuation Rules?

magic bookIn this third and final part of the blog series on punctuating dialogue, we’re back in the magical, fairytale kingdom of Bel Paese with the unpunctuated Ricotta Dialogues [click to download]. There’s a link to the punctuated version later in this blog.

You can find part 2 of the series here, and part 1 is here. The latest version of The Rules is at the end of part 2 but I’ll be expanding them at the end of this blog, and providing a printable version, so you might prefer to wait for that magic rule book to be opened 😉

But first, last week’s answer?

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Punctuating dialogue (Part 2) Beyond the Basics

Lichtenstein castleLast week I introduced you to the fairytale kingdom of Bel Paese and gave you the first three rules of punctuating dialogue. Today we go beyond the basics.

If you want the recap, it’s at the end of my previous blog here. And you can still download the Ricotta Dialogues here.

This week we’re going to look at slightly more complicated punctuation of dialogue. It’s not used all the time, but it is useful to learn and apply the rules.
As before, they’re simple.

But first, last week’s answers?

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