[22:55:26] Kaolin Maia Cash: https://41.media.tumblr.com/4221cd00c5abf790166d5717e4eac6b7/tumblr_nsh40y2oE71qje8f2o1_400.jpg [22:57:25] skeletalCohort: I feel like I would like to know why there is an ellipse preceding that statement when "How" is capitalized as if it is the start of a sentence and not a continuation of one [22:57:47] Kaolin Maia Cash: it's the start of a new paragraph [22:58:07] Kaolin Maia Cash: but not the start of a new quote [22:58:23] Kaolin Maia Cash: that is allowed [22:58:30] skeletalCohort: Okay [22:59:32] skeletalCohort: If you say so [23:05:52] Kaolin Maia Cash: personally i find it more aesthetically pleasing to do without the capitalisation [23:05:58] Kaolin Maia Cash: but there's no reason not to [23:11:17] Kaolin Maia Cash: "When writing speech," Kaolin wrote, her hand gracefully smudging the wet ink she had just written, "oh shit, that always happens. I need to work on my handwriting. Anyway, when writing speech, it's common for a person to end up reciting a monologue. This can result in the pushing over of one paragraph to another. "The next paragraph begins with a quotation mark, whereas the previous paragraph does not end with one. I encountered this for the first time in Phillip Pulleman's 'The Ruby In The Smoke' - a great read, I might add - and thought it was a mistake. I was corrected by a rather pushy girl in my class at school," Kaolin thought for a moment, "I think her name was Beth Reynolds? I had a crush on her friend Danielle. Danielle was a short girl with dark hair, which she always kept in a ponytail. I liked it when she had her hair down but I always found her cute either way. Danielle had these braces and, well, I'd always liked braces. Anyway," flipping back a couple pages to find her place, Kaolin remembered what she was originally intending to talk about. "Paragraphs! Sometimes, you have multiple paragraphs for one character within a single set of quote marks, and sometimes you have one character's closed captions following directly on from their own without another person chiming in. It's proper to make a point of beginning a new character's speech in a new paragraph-" "Like this?" Draal interrupted, needlessly providing an example where any halfwit could see one was not necessary. "Yes," the Necromancer Queen sighed, "like that. At any rate, speech and its relationships to paragraphs and grammar is my favourite thing in writing - it's a lot of fun to play with, and one of the best ways to set mood. By altering the flow of discourse you can tell your readers a lot about the characters you're speaking through..." Kaolin trailed off and looked into space. Her eyes seemed to defocus and look in opposite directions for a second, before returning to the page. "...However, always remember to put baked potato but don't." She sheathed her pen.