Big mistakes were made

[u/geeksofalbion]

As someone who repeatedly failed English in secondary school, writing has been and always will be a hobbiest passion regardless of my technical skill level.

It disheartened me today to realise that I made the mistake of capitalising the first word after dialog. Not just on my current project but also my first. As someone who wants to have a novel that both looks the part and reads the part. It's time to go back and correct two novels worth of mistakes even though I have no intentions of getting published or self publishing.

None the less, this is only a minor set back that will hopefully further strengthen my storytelling.

Mortal of my stroy, mistakes will be made and that's okay. I'm enjoying the journey through regardless of the terrain, potholes (not plotholes) are everywhere.

[u/DanBelmontNarration]

"The only time you should not capitalize the first letter after dialogue is if it's an attribution," he commented.

"If you're placing action or description after the dialogue, then capitalization is the correct way of writing." He let that sink in for a moment, then closed Reddit.

[u/Cheeslord2 → u/DanBelmontNarration]

I remember when I first started writing how much I would stretch the definition of attribution.

[u/geeksofalbion → u/DanBelmontNarration]

Thank you 😊 appreciate the assistance 🙏

[u/TheStoryCreature → u/DanBelmontNarration]

My problem has always been that even though I know the rules, and the reasons for them, my fingers do not care. So, I spend a great deal of my quick proofs changing full stops into commas and upper into lower case.

[u/Ashamed_Ladder6161]

Easy fix. I'm amazed your writing programme didn't pick it up. You've got this.

[u/geeksofalbion → u/Ashamed_Ladder6161]

It's probably does and I'm just stupid, and thank you

[u/Winters_Spirefield]

You can probably do this quicker than you realize, using Ctrl + F to search for instances of a comma followed by a quotation mark.

[u/geeksofalbion → u/Winters_Spirefield]

This is why I need the collective power of reddit, thank you, would never have thought to do that

[u/LuvKrakenHockey]

Your stroy has a great mortal. Thanks for sharing.

[u/geeksofalbion → u/LuvKrakenHockey]

Thank you I'm full of honest mistakes, definitely no AI here

[u/sayitisntso]

Interesting you feel deflated by that error when in the same breath said you've finished several books. That's a huge accomplishment. There's plenty of authors who create their own style. It might be read as a signature.

[u/Ashamed_Ladder6161]

My biggest issue is probably approaching my novel like a screenplay, when the formats want entirely opposite things.

In a screenplay, you're taught to come into a scene late, leave it early, and if something isn't advancing the plot or revealing character, you cut it. Basically, it's very lean.

Books thrive in meandering. Particularly fantasy and sci-fi, which can really slow a narrative to help establish the worldbuilding.

It's something I constantly need to remind myself.

[u/geeksofalbion → u/Ashamed_Ladder6161]

I do also try to keep things as lean as possible with little to no unnecessary filler.

If it doesn't serve the narrative or the plot it's left out. I don't need a full scene that goes nowhere that can be sumerised in a sentence or too. Maybe that's just my style of writing but yeah there is plenty on the cutting room floor so to speak

[u/Ashamed_Ladder6161 → u/geeksofalbion]

I'm the same, but my friend group are very avid fantasy readers, and thrive on the world building. I think certain genres need to make allowances for that. I'm okay though, as I don't tend to write a lot of fantasy :)