Character Correspondence

[ErotikWryter]

Yes - It's me again - asking another question and hoping that it may be answered.

In the story I am creating, I want my character to read an e-mail, then respond to it, but I want the reader to be able to view the exact words of the e-mail. How do I accomplish this and allow the reader to know that it is a verbatim piece of correspondence?

The way that I currently have, is that I indented the paragraph that the e-mail is being read:


Tracy opened her e-mail from Mr. Silvertooth and read:

How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck
could chuck wood?

She responded:

I think it depends on the size of the wood chuck's teeth.


Would the above be an accurate way to make the character read the e-mail, and respond to it while allowing the reader to read the same e-mail, verbatim?

 

[snooper]

That would be OK, I think. I have seen two other methods used, namely italics and carets.

Italics goes:

Tracy opened her e-mail from Mr. Silvertooth and read:
How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
She responded:
I think it depends on the size of the wood chuck's teeth.

Using carets is more intuitively obvious to habitual computer users:

Tracy opened her e-mail from Mr. Silvertooth and read:
> How much wood could a wood chuck
> chuck if a wood chuck could chuck
> wood?
She responded:
> I think it depends on the size of the
> wood chuck's teeth.

 

[BlackSnake]

Gosh, ignore this, but I got to spill...

How do the characters respond to what they have read?

I have seen such entries blockquoted in print.

 

[LadyCibelle]

Re: Re: Character Correspondence

That would be OK, I think. I have seen two other methods used, namely italics and carets.

Italics goes:

Tracy opened her e-mail from Mr. Silvertooth and read:
How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
She responded:
I think it depends on the size of the wood chuck's teeth.

Using carets is more intuitively obvious to habitual computer users:

Tracy opened her e-mail from Mr. Silvertooth and read:
> How much wood could a wood chuck
> chuck if a wood chuck could chuck
> wood?
She responded:
> I think it depends on the size of the
> wood chuck's teeth.

Hey Snoop

Glad to see you alive and well I hope you'll come more often now....we need more people as helpful as you!

 

[ErotikWryter]

I agree with italics, but have read that the Literotica website does not respond too well with italicized font. Considering that it is my passion to write and have a story "published" with the intent to satisfy my "publisher's" needs and requirements, I wish to write in a manner that conveys accurately. Thus, for the needs and capabilities of Literotica.com, my best choice seems to be the carets, or changing of font altogether.

 

[LadyCibelle]

I agree with italics, but have read that the Literotica website does not respond too well with italicized font. Considering that it is my passion to write and have a story "published" with the intent to satisfy my "publisher's" needs and requirements, I wish to write in a manner that conveys accurately. Thus, for the needs and capabilities of Literotica.com, my best choice seems to be the carets, or changing of font altogether.

You can put italics in stories EW..you just have to know the code for it.

like that =(I)Like that(/I) Just change the () for [] [/]

 

[ErotikWryter]

LadyC:

Within the storyline? Within the submission of my written work?

 

[LadyCibelle]

LadyC:

Within the storyline? Within the submission of my written work?

If you submit your story in the submission box instead of sending it as an attachement...you can put this coding in front of the text you want italicized for sure.

And another advantage of copy/pasting in the submission box is that your work get online faster too

 

[snooper]

... or changing of font altogether.

Very sad to say, but that can't be done on Lit.

... I hope you'll come more often now ...

My frequency of visits to the EF has not varied for some considerable time. I am on the forum sometime between 08:00 and 10:00 GMT of every weekday, unless I am out for the day, which is rare. Saturday and Sunday I never log on. The last time I was away for any length of time was for my wedding in early December; the next will be in late May (DV) when I expect to be in Ireland.

 

[LadyCibelle]

Very sad to say, but that can't be done on Lit.

My frequency of visits to the EF has not varied for some considerable time. I am on the forum sometime between 08:00 and 10:00 GMT of every weekday, unless I am out for the day, which is rare. Saturday and Sunday I never log on. The last time I was away for any length of time was for my wedding in early December; the next will be in late May (DV) when I expect to be in Ireland.

Hey I wasn't criticizing you! I was just trying to be nice....looks like I failed miserably

 

[BlackSnake]

Hey I wasn't criticizing you! I was just trying to be nice....looks like I failed miserably

I don't think you failed.

 

[elsol]

Where possible... I use indented text with the >

Sincerely,

ElSol

 

[flyer333]

Interesting...

This is how I would, and do, write it. Not saying I'm write (hehe)

Tracy opened her e-mail from Mr. Silvertooth.

It read "'How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?' She responded 'I think it depends on the size of the wood chuck's teeth.'"

Ouch!