Let Your Characters Speak Their Mind, as Long as They Stay Within the Rules

How to use quote marks to convey congruency in your dialogue

Jill Reid
The Writing Cooperative
6 min readSep 15, 2020

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Several months ago, I wrote an article about how my future would allegedly play out. However, I wasn’t the narrator of the story — and that’s where the problem began.

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