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  Surprisingly, many people don’t know how to properly write dialogue. What I mean is quotation marks and punctuation . The main rule is that the end quotation mark is always placed after the punctuation. Example: “I love pizza,” she said. Now let’s talk about the punctuation. If you are saying he said/she said/they said or using a name (Melanie said), use a comma before the end quotation mark. And he/she/they is lowercase. Here are some examples: INCORRECT: “I love pizza . ” she said. INCORRECT: “I love pizza,” S he said. CORRECT: “I love pizza,” he said. CORRECT: “We love pizza,” they said. The same goes for question marks. If he/she/they are asking, he/she/they is lowercase. CORRECT: “Do you like pizza?” he asked. INCORRECT: “Do you like pizza?” H e asked. If you are introducing dialogue, use a comma. Example: She said, “I love pizza.” For more on punctuation with dialogue with examples, check out this article from the Author Learning Center . Happy...

  Colleen R. Williams is the author of The Quest for Truth: A Journey of Forgiveness , a recently released nonfiction book telling her story—a story of her journey through abandonment, abuse, awareness, courage, the search for truth, discovery, and forgiveness. Book Synopsis: Colleen Williams was abandoned by her mother at the age of nine. She spent many years in and out of foster homes, enduring all sorts of unspeakable abuse. Forty years later, Colleen makes the difficult decision to return to her native country of Trinidad, determined to find unanswered questions and uncover the truth behind her mother’s abandonment. Over the duration of an exhaustive search, Colleen visits one destination after another in search of answers that hopefully give her peace. Sadly, each stop along her journey leaves her even more lost than the one before. Still, Colleen is determined to discover the truth behind the events that happened so long ago. Her book takes you on this journey of fo...