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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Okay, I have a question that a friend of mine brought up involving the punctuation used on narration. Her comment was, "the only two punctuation points you can use in narration is the period and the question mark. No exclamation marks, shock points or anything else, period. Those should be reserved strictly for dialog." What's your thoughts on this? Myself, I kinda enjoy adding a bit of excitement into my narration with ! and !? and even italics on certain words to add some fire to the narrative. To me, anything less is too boring. I mean, when I read narration without some kind of periodical heart pumping exclamation points, and shock points (ie, !?) at the very least, and some italics'ed words as well, seems almost necessary. What do you think?
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For narration punctuation, I merely use punctuation or quotation marks at the beginning and end of sentences that show the characters saying something. In some parts of my books, I create a dialogue where I display the names of the characters followed by a colon followed by the characters speaking.