An actual author type question...

[CharleyH]

We had a discussion about this in the Editor's forum. The usually accepted way to indicate thought is with italics.

---dr.M.

And yet still - I have yet to read a book with more than a word or paragraph of italicized sequences . . . hmm don't even need to revisit . . . is there something on the market with quotes interspersed with italics? I'd like to know to avoid it

becuase its you, otherwise my finger would come up STRONG and HARD!

 

[Boxlicker101]

We had a discussion about this in the Editor's forum. The usually accepted way to indicate thought is with italics.

---dr.M.

I'm not sure I can upload italicized text. Actually, I probably can but I don't know how. Sometimes I will be writing in the first person with the narrator being a participant and I will say something like: "This is really great," I thought. "And it's going to get even better." I use quotation marks because it is something being said, although not out loud.

 

[minsue]

Can you teach me how to sashay?

Please?

-Colly

You can't fool me, missy. I'm convinced you would stop traffic sashaying down the street. Even if you weren't in that outfit. (Although, if you ever do decide to sashay down the street dressed that way, please let me know! )

 

[snooper]

Re: Re: An actual author type question...

I'm contemplating a story that would require just that, and my thinking has led me to a variety of ways to accomplish it:
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Different font.
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Don't even think about a different font. On boards like Lit it can't be done, and with a paper publisher you get into endless trouble at page proof time - believe me (been there, done that, have the scars to prove it).

We had a discussion about this in the Editor's forum. The usually accepted way to indicate thought is with italics.

Not everyone actually agreed with dr.M on the EF. In fact, as I remember it, most people agreed with the way I do it.

 

[mismused]

Re: Re: Re: An actual author type question...

Don't even think about a different font. On boards like Lit it can't be done, and with a paper publisher you get into endless trouble at page proof time - believe me (been there, done that, have the scars to prove it).
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Snooper,

Okay, I accept what you say based on your guru status. I thought I had read that two fonts, times new roman, and courier were to be used, but on searching the documents I'd printed from Lit, I couldn't find that. Hope I didn't cause Renza a problem. I'll try not to misspeak hereafter. Now the question is:

What fonts are legitimate?

Thanks,

m