Many minor problems fixed · 9:03pm Jul 29th, 2014
As many of you have pointed out, I used the term "faux filly" a few too many times in the first half of the story (one person actually counted 24 times in one chapter ) I went through the entire story, and removed all but two or three of them, so things should be good now. Also, back when I first started writing fanfics, I didn't know that when writing questions that are followed by a pronoun should look like "?" Blank asked, instead of "," Blank asked. I went through and got rid of those commas, and added the question marks in their place. I also found a few spelling errors and missing words that I needed to fix. So, yeah, I think things should be good now.
Yup. One of the tricks in prose. But here are many more catches when combining action with dialogues. For instance something like this:
The second comma should also be a period, since the dialogue and first action are independent sentences to the second dialogue.
Another tip: If possible, avoid doing things like this:
Because here's a thing: The dialogue itself already points out that this is a question. If you have a ping-pong between two characters, you don't need to emphasize these actions. If the character is doing nothing else than saying something, you can basically omit <x> <y>. For instance:
See?
Also:
Dialogues shouldn't end with commas.
~Twi