I know it's some writer's "thing" to not use punctuation around dialogue, but I just can't do it, fam. It reads as an annoying gimmick to me every time.
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Cormac McCarthy does that.
I’ll never reread The Road, but I have reread the last few pages a dozen times.
After the two adults take the boy into their group.
I have so many mixed feelings about Blood Meridian. I wanted to love it, but it was my first time reading one of his novels and his use of punctuation (or lack there of) rattled my brain. I remember a sentence that was like, a page long without a single comma. Madness. Brilliance. Confusion. lol
There's a section of Iron Council (China Miéville) that has dialogue marked by em-dashes instead of ". The rest of the novel is punctuated normally, so it's odd. Also the section starts with text indicating it took place a few years before the rest of the novel. That should've been enough.
How do you indicate rhythm without punctuation, and the space around it? Zuckerbergtron doesn't need to breathe, so he's the exception, but the rest of us do.
As an experiment I wrote a romance novella entirely in dialogue or inner monologue, so I didn't bother with quotation marks. It was quite fun to do. I agree it looks a bit strange to the eye.
I've used punctuation normally in my other writing.
Without the punctuation it reminds me of my 11yr old niece telling a story ... and then I said to Lea let's go to the store and she said that's a good idea I have to go get my money ... and then we went to the store.
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I’ll never reread The Road, but I have reread the last few pages a dozen times.
After the two adults take the boy into their group.
I've used punctuation normally in my other writing.
Goddammit.
"And also some other writer's thing. And another one's, too. Fuck, there's a lot of them, pick one"