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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
To everyone else, as far as my use of extra sentence punctuation, I typically don't ever use shock points (ie, !?) in anything but dialog. However, I do occasionally like to use ! and itallics to add a little bit of bang to the narration, but nothing exhaustive. For me it'd usually be something like this:
"Then Tom and his gang turned the corner and ran into a bear! Now that was definitely something new!!"
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This sounds like maybe middle grade or emerging-reader fiction, where things can be a bit 'looser'; and tight third person, where the MC's emotions can bleed into the narration.
Personally I'd lose the double exclamation points, but that's a question of style.