Needs moar fucks.
And I was just told that I am going to be legally blind in 3 years. Awesome, right?
still no BM for me…
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I think I’m going to punch the monitor.
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What kind of grown-ass adult writes their name and date on the right side of the paper? Even back in elementary school I took the hit on points for refusing to write it on the right side. That shit is unprofessional.
lol ^
It’s my girlfriend’s birthday and I haven’t the faintest idea of what to get her. FUCK.
You answered your own question there.
The top-left is for specifying a recipient. Record of authorship belongs in the top-right and signatories belong in the bottom-left. Attribution of an excerpt would go in the bottom-right.
How can you not understand this? You deserve to be marked off even more than you were.
Whatever you get, I’m sure it will be better than scissors. (I am no good at gifting.)
shiny sparkly things
Well, shiny sparkly things aside, she made me a shelf for my birthday. I wanted to make her something for hers- a drawing, maybe?
She made you a shelf? You have a cool girlfriend. (completely serious btw)
Make two shelves.
One for each tit?
Ah, this forum gives such wonderful advise XP
Have you ever written an essay before? What majorly accepted style of composition allows that bullshit? Left hand corner or centered, depending on the style. Right-justified headers are for simpletons who accidentally hit the button in Word and can’t figure out how to switch it back.
Christ, formatting dialogue is a pain in the ass. If I have a detailed description of a character’s actions that goes right after a line, do I start a new paragraph or not?!
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^ Are you doing screenplay format, or narrative style?
Generally, from what I can tell by reading a lot, if the action is happening while the character is speaking, put it in the same paragraph as the quote. If the action happens after the person finishes speaking, start a new paragraph.
For example:
[COLOR=‘DeepSkyBlue’]“Hell of a day for an aneurysm,” Jonathan said, clearing his schedule.
He picked up the phone to dial the coroner. It was going to be a long day, having to explain why an otherwise-perfectly healthy 25 year old was now laying dead on his operating table.
This denotes that Jonathan was speaking as he was clearing his schedule. After that, he got on the phone with the coroner.
Generally speaking, each person’s dialogue and actions during the line(s) go onto a single paragraph. Actions that happen by themselves go after the paragraph because they are not part of what the character said. So, for example:
[COLOR=‘DeepSkyBlue’]“Hell of a day for an aneurysm,” Jonathan said.
Clearing his schedule, he picked up the phone to dial the coroner. It was going to be a long day, having to explain why an otherwise-perfectly healthy 25 year old was now laying dead on his operating table.
This one denotes that Jonathan spoke without doing much of anything important that the reader needs to know about. Then, he cleared his schedule while picking up the phone to talk to the coroner. The formatting difference of where to put the schedule clearing denotes when the schedule clearing happens. In the former, he’s doing it as he’s speaking. In the latter, he’s doing it after he finishes speaking.
Thank you, danielsangeo! And k3nny, I meant narrative style, yeah.
Edit: The reason I need help with this is actually because I’m writing a science fiction short story. With Dragons in it. Shit’s awesome.
And I just realized that using a radioisotope thermoelectric generator to power a personal pulsed beam laser rifle won’t work as well as I thought because if the capacitors get full it’ll start to overheat. Fuck, writing science fiction is complicated.
Just add a nitrogenic compression chamber. One flick of the harmonic sub-resonator and those capacitors will be cold enough to chill beer.