OMG, yes on the apostrophes. Bandom specific case: the plural of "Alex" is "Alexes," no apostrophe.
I have to say that I deeply appreciate fandom for not doing one thing that appears to be popular in pretentious literary circles: leaving out quotation marks around dialogue. Apparently Cormac McCarthy did this and now everyone who wants to be a literary author thinks it's okay. (I am bitter about a first chapter from my writing group that was great right up until the dialogue when I stopped paying attention to the story and was just frothingly angry about the lack of quotation marks.)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-09 03:16 pm (UTC)I have to say that I deeply appreciate fandom for not doing one thing that appears to be popular in pretentious literary circles: leaving out quotation marks around dialogue. Apparently Cormac McCarthy did this and now everyone who wants to be a literary author thinks it's okay. (I am bitter about a first chapter from my writing group that was great right up until the dialogue when I stopped paying attention to the story and was just frothingly angry about the lack of quotation marks.)