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: Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
2008-05-29 13:27:00

Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
2008-05-29 13:27:00

Mood: giggly
Music: The Zappas, 'Baby One More Time.'

Possibly the best thing ever said by an editor.

I have a nasty tendency to forget to put the end punctuation of a sentence inside the ' marks when I'm constructing a sentence. So rather than punctuating like this:

"It was very much 'screw you, I'm taking the dog.'"

I'll punctuate like this:

"So it was all 'hate you, hate Kansas'."

Now, this is Not Exactly Correct. And one of my fabulous proofreaders just pointed it out to me by saying:

"The punctuation is LONELY outside of its proper kennel, Seanan! Let it in! Let it snuggle down inside the quotation marks with the rest of the sentence!"

...I love my proofreaders. I love them like burning.