Run-on sentences

[potioncat]

> Magpie:
> Thanks, Carol! I always think that's right but lately have gotten insecure about quotations after periods. I must have been reading British English texts and it got into my head that I was doing it wrong!


Potioncat:
Me too! 

Not only that, for some strange reason, I decided to write HP fan-fiction in Brit speak--or at least to have it beta-read by Brit speakers. I didn't know at the time that the punctuation rules were different in the two countries. What had become a rusty bit of knowledge was made very shakey indeed after a few sessions of many red marks.