Folks, I've been running across this issue in a lot of edits recently so I'm going to touch on a grammar thing that "everybody already knows" because I can 100% guarantee not everyone does. Also, sometimes a refresher course is nice.

Let's talk about DIALOGUE TAGS.
#amediting DIALOGUE TAGS include a "speaker verb" so, "Et tu, brute," Julius Caesar *said*.

ACTION BEATS are something a character does. "I need to call my guardian angel." Jane *picked up the phone.*

A DIALOGUE TAG is generally preceded by a comma.

ACTION BEATS are preceded by a period.

So many of the pictures I color end up the way they do because of the mistakes I made along the way. Instead of trashing the picture, I try to incorporate those mistakes into the art somehow. A course correction. 🧵

(March 28, 2022, art by Ken Matsuda, using colored pencils) Generally, the mistakes that make me think, "Great. Now the whole thing is RUINED" at the time, end up being one of the strengths in the piece when I look at the finished product.

(March 30, 2022. Art by Kerby Rosanes from Mythic World, using colored pencils)

So this guy just informed me that he’s not going to go with me for his edit because I edit in Word and he requires the edit done in Scrivener which, on his planet, is “industry standard”.

A short 🧵 As proof, he gave me some quote an “epic scope poet” (What does that mean, I wonder.) in his local writing group named Clide Johnston, about how amazing Scrivener is.