tylerharms

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I write and teach and run long distances and play a mediocre concertina.

	623 reputation	bio	website	up.com	visits	member for	7 months
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Dec 13	accepted	How many short stories make a collection
Dec 13	revised	Non-cheap ways to make villains evil? added 204 characters in body
Dec 13	comment	How to write realistic female dialogue Can you add a link to give the OP more access to your research.
Dec 13	answered	Non-cheap ways to make villains evil?
Dec 13	awarded	Scholar
Dec 13	accepted	Using dashes in writing dialogue
Dec 13	comment	Using dashes in writing dialogue Thanks, but that's not really what I'm after. Sometimes a writer will head a dialogue passage with either "--" or "—" instead of using quotes. My question has to do with the rules about using this type of dialogue, which I'm realizing are not really defined in English.
Dec 6	answered	How do I quote a graphic novel?
Dec 6	awarded	Commentator
Dec 2	revised	What exactly is wrong with 'It was a dark and stormy night'? deleted 3 characters in body
Nov 28	comment	Using dashes in writing dialogue @ggambett: Thanks for the wiki leak. From what I can tell, the only rule to follow is that the quotation dash should reappear after speech tags in the middle of a dialogue passage. As for bleeding eyes...that could be a good thing.
Nov 28	revised	Using dashes in writing dialogue deleted 49 characters in body
Nov 27	comment	Using dashes in writing dialogue So, you use the dashes around the speech tags and the punctuation. What if the speech tag comes at the end? Punctuate it normally? No dashes?
Nov 27	comment	How many short stories make a collection Thanks, Chris. I will hit the Writer's Market.
Nov 27	asked	Using dashes in writing dialogue
Nov 26	answered	What exactly is wrong with 'It was a dark and stormy night'?
Nov 24	comment	How many short stories make a collection How big of a book?
Nov 24	comment	How many short stories make a collection I have published three stories (of ten) with different, small publishers. None of these houses have published anything beyond a magazine in the past. I'm seeing more and more small, indy publishers publishing collections, but I haven't gotten my hands on many to see what's average for number of stories. Obviously, a complete collection is a complete collection, but I feel like I have a few stories that could be added or removed to maintain the integrity of the collection.
Nov 24	awarded	Student
Nov 24	awarded	Autobiographer