Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Microsoft has spent literally more than a billion dollars developing Word, and this is what we get. It put in the wrong closing quote mark, but it’s telling us that what’s wrong is the space after it. To write dialogue that ends with a dash because the character is interrupted, type the dash and right after it, any random letter. Then the closing quote mark will be correct and you can delete that random letter. A billion dollars.
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Microsoft has spent literally more than a billion dollars developing Word, and this is what we get. It put in the wrong closing quote mark, but it’s telling us that what’s wrong is the space after it. To write dialogue that ends with a dash because the character is interrupted, type the dash and right after it, any random letter. Then the closing quote mark will be correct and you can delete that random letter. A billion dollars.
LINKS:
Buy Me a Coffee: https://coff.ee/williamgallagher
Support 58keys on Patreon: patreon.com/user?u=86274276J
oin the Writer's Mailing list too: eepurl.com/gQTqTT
Buy my book on Amazon US: amzn.to/3KhF19P
Or Amazon UK: amzn.to/3IzZm94
Watch the 58keys Writing Workshop videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCtk0vyOGM40dh0gwg17tWI70Y1Qhh4Sj&si=qa8uc8vtOxHs9dlg
If you buy through my Amazon links, they may chuck me a penny or two. Or they won't. Either way, it will never cost you anything extra.
