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 Further, the classic third-person narrative voice should not use exclamation points ''at all''.  An obvious exception can be made if the [[Narrator]] is an actual character within the story who is relating the events thereof, but even then the author should avoid them whenever possible.
-Finally, the author should ''never'' end ''every'' sentence in an exclamation point -- not only will it dilute the impact of ''all'' the exclamation points in the story, nobody's ''ever'' that excited, and the dialogue will end up looking like it came out of a [[Silver Age]] comic book.  (Of course, if the author is ''deliberately'' crafting a character whose schtick is to sound like he's from a Silver Age comic book, then go for it.)
+Finally, the author should ''never'' end ''every'' sentence in an exclamation point -- not only will it dilute the impact of ''all'' the exclamation points in the story, nobody's ''ever'' that excited, and the dialogue will end up looking like it came out of a [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age]] comic book.  (Of course, if the author is ''deliberately'' crafting a character whose schtick is to sound like he's from a Silver Age comic book, then go for it.)
 (Text adapted from ''[http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/guide/fwg.txt A Fanfic Writer's Guide To Writing]'' by Robert M. Schroeck, with the permission of the author.)