Coal Rivalry

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All the things Coal said, running through my head.

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Comments

Re: pettiness

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

IMO the limitation of that is that it does tend to read as the thing happening after the dialogue, not during.

Most of the time it's perfectly okay, but it's not quite a full substitute.

Re: pettiness

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I will read "'Oh well.' Blorbo shrugged." as Blorbo shrugging after he said "Oh well", not while he said it. I think a period and a new sentence is the worst way to write action happening at the same time as speech.

"'Oh well,' Blorbo said with a shrug." and "'Oh well,' Blorbo said, shrugging." are both a lot better.