[@NuttsnBolts] Indeed! Though I sometimes fudge if I have speaker 1, speaker 2, action of speaker 2, followed by action of speaker 1 -- action-action doesn't require a line break, and then if speaker 2 talks again I've already established that the narrative indicates 2 by their action, so a line break there doesn't make sense. However, when you use punctuation for quotes and phrases, it gets tricky (and for a few other things as well). And when I say "tricky", I mean that it's terribly confusing. I was taught that ellipses with four dots (actually an ellipsis and then a period) should be used if that's the final punctuation in a sentence. To me, that indicates that I can go ellipsis-endingpunctuation, because what if it's excited? What if...I'm trailing off...? These I tend to use more in dialogue, as I employ punctuation there to indicate manner of speaking and timing. However, it would make sense if that ending period can be some other ending marking. I've also been taught that if you are quoting a word or phrase, you may need to put punctuation outside the quotes. This is not dialogue, and the rules are a bit different. I was taught the same for parentheticals -- in fact (as above) ofttimes ending punctuation goes after the ending parenthesis. But if the comment is a query, or excited (because did you really expect me to be calm?) an exclamation point or question mark is used to show this. And then you get to the end of a sentence, and now you have a concluding punctuation mark inside the parenthesis, and I'm pretty sure you don't add concluding punctuation to the sentence itself afterwards, because the one on the inside just has to pull double duty. So what the heck do you do when you need a comma after the main sentence portion but there's a punctuation mark in the parenthetical? Do you fudge (and I hate to do it!), or do you just hope people can hear the pause without a marker? I am very happy to see that the multiple paragraph rule is on here. I learned about that much later, and from books not school, and I happen to love it. BY THE WAY. [@lady horatio][@Phoenix][@Gowi]! As you all seem to know about both semicolon and Oxford comma, have you heard of *drumroll* the OXFORD SEMICOLON?! ...Okay, okay, I'm not certain that's what it's called, but it'd make sense!