Use of italics

[karaline]

I'm working on a new story and I'm just messing around with different formats.

Currently the story is largely from the female perspective with short vignettes from the male (a paragraph or two here and there). In its current draft his POV is entirely in Italics. I've seen this done before, but never on this site. Are there rules against this way of using italics on Literotica, or is it just that I haven't come across it so far.

Thanks in advance

 

[Handley_Page]

I'm working on a new story and I'm just messing around with different formats.

Currently the story is largely from the female perspective with short vignettes from the male (a paragraph or two here and there). In its current draft his POV is entirely in Italics. I've seen this done before, but never on this site. Are there rules against this way of using italics on Literotica, or is it just that I haven't come across it so far.

Thanks in advance

Some writers on Lit have put some sort of separation [ * * * * ]
followed by the paragraph of the other POV.
This is then terminated by another separator [ * * * * ].

 

[holliday1960]

I'm working on a new story and I'm just messing around with different formats.

Currently the story is largely from the female perspective with short vignettes from the male (a paragraph or two here and there). In its current draft his POV is entirely in Italics. I've seen this done before, but never on this site. Are there rules against this way of using italics on Literotica, or is it just that I haven't come across it so far.

Thanks in advance

I did run across this on two stories in the past. I don't know for sure, but I think this is entirely to the author's discretion. I can't imagine Laurel having any objection to it. I use italics for foreign phrases, and of course to stress words in sentences.

 

[karaline]

Some writers on Lit have put some sort of separation [ * * * * ]
followed by the paragraph of the other POV.
This is then terminated by another separator [ * * * * ].

Thanks, this is normally what I do if I want to head hop within a scene, but this time I fancy trying something else

 

[Zeb_Carter]

There are a few stories here that do that, but you have to be very careful of how you do it. If a page break occurs in the middle of you Italic text tags, the new page will start as plain text and continue until the another <i> is encountered.

It would be best, I have done it this away in several stories, to have scene break and have the person who is narrating name just under it.

Kind of like Handley said...

<center>* * * *</center>
<center><b>B i l l</b></center>

It would look like this...

* * * *
B i l l​

 

[SimonDoom]

I find it just a little bit harder to read something when it's in italics, so I think italics is better used in small doses. I would agree with others who suggest setting off these passages in another way.

 

[sr71plt]

italics is better used in small doses.

That's the way the publishing industry views it.

 

[MindsMirror]

We use italics for inner monologue and will continue to do so.

You should know before posting, that italics doesn't appear correctly in the Lit App.

It'll be fine through the web, but the Lit App ignores ALL HTML markup.
-MM

 

[Lascivity]

On a screen, some people find italics a little more difficult to read - and there's the issue of page breaks in long sections of italics. It's no big deal, but I'd lean towards some other way of marking out the POV sections if you're not overly attached to the italics...

 

[karaline]

You should know before posting, that italics doesn't appear correctly in the Lit App.

It'll be fine through the web, but the Lit App ignores ALL HTML markup.
-MM

Thanks, this is exactly the sort of information I was looking for

K

 

[Smokey125]

I use italics pretty liberally...

...Like ellipses and (em) dashes, there're a lot of them in my work. My usual uses for italics are:

Intros
Stressing words in dialogue or narrative
Non-spoken dialogue/characters' thoughts
Whispered/soft-spoken dialogue

I don't think there're any set rules, most writers march to the beat of their own formatting drummer...hell of a metaphor to stretch. —S

 

[sr71plt]

I don't think there're any set rules, most writers march to the beat of their own formatting drummer...hell of a metaphor to stretch. —S

If you want to publish it, there are conventions and if you want to publish with specific publishers, they have rules for what they publish.

 

[Smokey125]

She meant here...

If you want to publish it, there are conventions and if you want to publish with specific publishers, they have rules for what they publish.

I'm pretty sure just about everyone knows that. The o.p. wasn't asking about specific publishers.

Are there rules against this way of using italics on Literotica...

 

[sr71plt]

I'm pretty sure just about everyone knows that.

You didn't appear to know it with your "uh, I guess anything goes" response. That's not very helpful to someone trying to fall in with the standards. If they wanted to hear "anything goes," they wouldn't have needed to ask.

(P.S. By the way, Literotica is a specific publisher. And I'm willing to bet that, if you asked the Literotica editor, she'd counsel that you use italics on Literotica as rarely as possible.)

 

[Smokey125]

You didn't appear to know it with your "uh, I guess anything goes" response. That's not very helpful to someone trying to fall in with the standards. If they wanted to hear "anything goes," they wouldn't have needed to ask.

And you didn't appear to notice that once again, on *ahem* THIS, SITE...anything pretty much does go, formatting-wise. Nor did you appear to realize that the point I was making was that each author does his or her own thing, not "uh, anything goes." But "uh, I feel the need to criticize and correct anyone and anything here out of who knows what, perhaps my own insecurities, whether correction is warranted or not." Oh dear, someone else pipes up with details of his or her own experience, better shoot 'em right down. Once upon a time, I might've cared, but I've given up on Lit, so yes, "oh, boo-hoo, bye-bye, Smokey." There, I said it for you.

 

[sr71plt]

What's the difference between "each author does his own thing" and "anything goes"? I think it's just "super" when, especially after a question has been sufficiently answered here, some blind trying to lead the blind ignoramous comes along.

It isn't "each author does his own thing" even here on Literotica.

I'm pretty sure that after eleven years and 957 stories here, I have the hang of Literotica formatting. Better than you do.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And you didn't appear to notice that once again, on *ahem* THIS, SITE...anything pretty much does go, formatting-wise. Nor did you appear to realize that the point I was making was that each author does his or her own thing, not "uh, anything goes." But "uh, I feel the need to criticize and correct anyone and anything here out of who knows what, perhaps my own insecurities, whether correction is warranted or not." Oh dear, someone else pipes up with details of his or her own experience, better shoot 'em right down. Once upon a time, I might've cared, but I've given up on Lit, so yes, "oh, boo-hoo, bye-bye, Smokey." There, I said it for you.

Write a story, format it anyway you want then publish it here. I'll bet it's rejected if it doesn't conform to Lit guidelines.

 

[Smokey125]

Zeb

Write a story, format it anyway you want then publish it here. I'll bet it's rejected if it doesn't conform to Lit guidelines.

https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=1421869&page=submissions

Not my first rodeo. Link's in my signature too. I realize you could have been addressing the o.p., but you quoted my post there.