Writing vent

[lookashiny]

Did schools stop teaching kids that dialogue needs to have punctuation at the end of it? Because I see entirely too much dialogue in fics that is completely unpunctuated. It's just "I am an example", no period, no question mark, sometimes no commas. Why???

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[badfalcon]

Now, I left school a few years ago now but we didn't learn anything about punctuation, it's something I've learned through my very patient beta reader. I'm forever messaging her to ask how I punctuate something. And where to put a paragraph break in. They just cared that we could spell.

[lookashiny]

Wow, that surprises me. My elementary school was not the best at teaching us spelling (lots of phonics) but we learned the basic punctuation stuff.