I read with interest your blog on typos and thought I would comment on a related topic. I'll preface the comment by stating this is not aimed specifically at your writing, but is a general observation of a recurring trend in modern literature: Writers oft

You’re right, that is the problem. Some writers are better at managing formatting dialogue than others. Once you eliminate “she said” or “he said” from the equation the formatting issues are compounded. Cormac McCarthy throws his readers to the wolves to the extent that he offers no visible cues to differentiate dialogue from prose. No quotation marks, no font change, no em-dash, and certainly no “she said.” You know it’s dialogue by the context. And sometimes it ain’t easy. My own trick is t...