Currently I am reading Spell or High Water, book 2 in Scott Meyer’s “Magic 2.0” series. The novel series is a best seller, and not only that is a fantastic trilogy of novels that I highly recommend. However, I reached a point in the novel that was a crucial chapter, a chapter where a lot of the plot details invariably hinge, and found myself in a mine field of type-os and grammatical errors.
Usually there are type-os in every novel we read, but the errors in this particular chapter were so glaring that they drew me away from the action and importance of the plot points in the narrative. Not only that, there were some strange shifts in the way that dialogue was recorded that threw me off as well.
The normal convention for dialogue is to begin the character’s sentence and then list the “he said” or “she…
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