How to question for story writing

[ravenmx]

I am writing a story that includes text found in a flyer. I can't figure out if I should enclose the "flyer" text in quotes or not.

How should "flyer" text be handled? Is it quoted or just in its own paragraph?

Thanks in advance for any help. Would be greatly appreciated.

 

[sr71plt]

I am writing a story that includes text found in a flyer. I can't figure out if I should enclose the "flyer" text in quotes or not.

How should "flyer" text be handled? Is it quoted or just in its own paragraph?

Thanks in advance for any help. Would be greatly appreciated.

Any text that isn't your own wording and is quoted verbatim from another source should be inside double quote marks, yes.

 

[emap]

Alternately you can simply explain what the flyer said in a general term.

Like say: Reaching for it I pluck the flyer from under the wiper. Moving to throw it away I glance at it briefly to see that it has a rave for tonight.

Depends on how important the wording on the flyer is to your story. Though for the most part, I would say best to do the above and move on since a flyer is about the last thing most anyone is going to care about.

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

On a purely technical level, you could put a "picture" of the flyer in the text as follows:

He picked up the piece of paper and looked at it. It was badly printed, but read:

Dance

Saturday Evening

Clothes Optional​

'It says "Clothes Optional",' he thought, 'Wonder what that means?'

The trick is to surround the "flyer" with <blockquote> and </blockquote>

 

[AsylumSeeker]

The timing o this question is curious as I am editing a story where a "brochure" comes into play but I felt a bit at a loss as how to suggest handling this.

Is there a place where all of the "hidden" Lit secrets are contained? I learned <i> AND </I> AND <CENTER> AND </CENTER> (oops, hit caps lock, disregard) by editing, but know of no others or where they might be listed.

Okay folks, fess up!

 

[ravenmx]

Thank you all for taking the time to answer.

I had it in quotes and it just didn't look right.

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

... Is there a place where all of the "hidden" Lit secrets are contained? ...

In four words - not that I know of (other than in Weird Harold's head). There are plenty of places where all the possible <> and [] commands are listed, but Lit appears to have its own private subset of them, and to ignore the rest.