: Re: How should dialog be formatted? Is there any "official" rule that I should keep in mind when formatting character dialog? Line breaks, placement of quotes, mixing dialog with action descriptions

That's totally up to you, every writer is different, blablabla...

Honestly, if you are interested in formatting, pick up some novels, there are different styles, choose one.

But your problem looks more like "guiding the reader" or "building tension". See, you want to emphasize "this", not "look around Jones". So you should say "this" and point to the castle. I vote for number 2.

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