: Re: Is it okay to use a lot of exclamation marks? I've noticed that I use a lot of exclamation marks when my characters are talking. They appear a lot in action scenes. Is there any rule of

Exclamation marks should be used sparingly. If every sentence is in all caps with three exclamation marks at the end, it's just tiring.

Like many things in writing, it's difficult to give any hard and fast rule, like "no more than one exclamation mark per page" or some such. It all depends. But if you are using more than one exclamation mark on the average per page, that's almost surely too much. If you have more than two sentences in a row that end with an exclamation mark, that is almost surely too much.

I'm sure one could think of exceptions. Like maybe if you want to portray one character as being very excitable, and so every other sentence he says ends with an exclamation, maybe.

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