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Originally Posted by teh603
So the one I've read a bit of hemming and hawing over is repeating a character's name endlessly during dialog. I've read a fair few arguments both ways, and none are particularly convincing.
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I think it shows up if you read the work aloud. Very quickly the repetition of first names becomes clumsy and unrealistic.
The exclamation mark one is one of the reasons I gave up reading James Patterson (that, and the poor writing/plotting/characterisation etc. etc.). His use of them outside of dialogue, just to emphasise a narrative sentence, drives me mad!