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I have a question about professional style in spec scripts....

posted 8 years ago by Satchmos_Chillun
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In action-description passages, when you end a sentence with 3 periods, what's correct (meaning professional) to start the next sentence with? An uncapitalized word, or can a capitalized word be okay?

Is this correct below?

I don't know . . . It seems like you've found the straw that broke the camel's back.

I've always assumed that this was correct, in the event that you want to insert three periods into the middle of a sentence:

I don't know . . . it seems like you've found the straw that broke the camel's back.

[–] Bioparadoxous 8 years ago

The truth is... no one cares. But I've always maintained that you only capitalize if you are officially starting a new sentence.

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[–] Satchmos_Chillun 8 years ago

Bioparadoxous, that's exactly what I wanted to read. Thank you!

[–] thebigmouth 8 years ago

You could go either way with this one.

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[–] thebigmouth 8 years ago

I have to admit... I'm a serial abuser.

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[–] Speed_of_Late 8 years ago

I almost never dodge a bad habit in writing, but I never got into ellipsis abuse. I suspect a lot of people use it in dialogue and even narrative to force the reader to "hear" it at the pace and cadence they imagine it, right down to the pauses. Most of the time, of course, hearing it as the writer does makes no difference.

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