Quotation Marks Are Fun!

I had planned to spend the day doing Homeowner Repair Funtivities, but the rain canceled that, so instead I’m editing CLOAK OF SPEARS. I’m not sure how it happens, but maybe for every 700th quotation mark or so that I type, instead of curly quotes I get straight ones instead.  I haven’t been able to work out why. I think it’s because I wrote parts of CLOAK OF SPEARS on a Windows 10 desktop and other parts on a MacBook, and something got screwed up in the different versions of Word. But I don’t have to worry about it getting fixed. No, I do not.  Because EVERY SINGLE TIME this happens, Grammarly loses its mind. It takes like five minutes to grind through a chapter, and then the entire screen lights up with red as Grammarly highlights EVERY SINGLE quotation mark in the chapter and asks if I wanted to use curly quotes or straight quotes because one instance of straight quotes slipped into the chapter. Technology! This is why we don’t have to worry about artificial intelligence conquering the world, because the AIs would spend all their time trying to decide what kind of quotation marks to use. -JM