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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Fanfiction where the authors don't put paragraph breaks between dialogue. Why?
Even worse they did it properly in the early chapters but then stopped. I DNF'd.
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It's not just Fan Fiction.
I've seen that occasionally on old books republished where it's a OCR proof error or something.
It makes very hard to follow who is speaking.
Also on some newer titles (OCR unlikely) having actions by another character in the middle of same paragraph as the dialogue is very bad writing. It's just confusing. Often that can't be properly fixed by inserting two paragraph breaks. It's bad enough having an action by a different character at the start or end of dialogue, though a new paragraph usually fixes that.
Writers and Editors: there is no charge for paragraph breaks.