[bksvol-discuss] Re: quotation mark question
- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 03:53:13 -0800
Hi, I think you need to determine if the quotation mark is needed in the
first place. Is the story completely written in first person? If someone can
be shown to be conversing, that's where you want to put a quotation mark,
particularly if there are any attributions as in "he said" or "she said".
Can you contact the submitter of the file and make a copy of the
questionable lines and ask if that quotation mark is in his/her file?
Sometimes marks are there for no particular reason and if so, you can feel
free to delete them unless it's supposed to be there. If the narrative has
been going on without a quote and one comes up, you have to know should it
be where it is or if you can remove it. I'm sorry I can't be of as good
assistance as I might be because I don't know what your file is like and how
far you've gone in it. I like to e-mail the submitter to let him/her know
what I'm doing while the proofreading is going on and also if I need to
verify certain stuff as in your quotation example. Regards, Kim Friedman.
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] quotation mark question
I am working on a book that has short stories in it.
I notice that in some of them there are quotation marks in the middle.
Do I need to place a quotation mark on the end of the sentence before?
i.e.
Mitzi sitting close where she could keep careful watch over him.
"One day, while he could still communicate, he told me he didn't want Mitzi
to die of grief when he was gone.
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