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Originally Posted by toddhicks209
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.
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The sentence I highlighted above stuck me as strange. It sounds more like playscript than narrative. Under what circumstances do you do this? What made you start?
Given that I managed to write a 3300 word short story that was entirely dialogue, with no character attributions at all (and it worked), I have trouble working out why it would ever be necessary or desirable to use a colon.