Augh! It's a perfectly cromulant punctuation mark!

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Ellora's Cave does not take colons in their work.

But how the flaming Sea am I supposed to punctuate this sentence WITHOUT one?
“At the end, let only this be said: that all Ruvane Delkroy did, he did for love of Etarin.”

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The really fun part is that at one point in the story, I have a complex list. It has a colon and several semi-colons. I try to avoid the latter, but there are times when one needs them.

I don't understand colon avoidance.

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And what of cases where you're trying to covey a sense of officiousness and buracracy? I have a scene where they're dealing with the equivalent of the DMV.


“Property named Etarin: human, nulled male; age twenty-four; current owner, Ruvane Delkroy; permanent residence, small hauler Grania, in transit, no home port,” he read. “Is all that correct?”

“Yes,” Ruvane said, unhappy with the bluntness of it.

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They're from the same story. And they are the only two, out of ten, that I think need to stay.

I'm discovering I use a lot of colons.