Dialogue in email form

[LissaSue]

When one is writing dialogue, written as if in an email, is it treated just like the normal speaking format, or is there a specific way it needs to be done?

Thanks for your time,

 

[sr71plt]

I haven't seen any discussions in style authorities on this. In print, I'd handle the e-mail dailogue as extracts, indenting it to distinguish it from text. I haven't seen a way to extract in Lit. stories, though.

When I've done it for stories here, I've make the e-mail separate paragraphs, rendered in italics, with each e-mail followed by the e-mailer's name in full caps (and italicized). I submitted them with no extra spaces between the e-mail and the e-mailer's name, but the Lit. system put in an extra return. I think if I submitted a story like this again to Lit., I'd put the sender tag in parenthesis behind the e-mail entry so there was no line skip.

You can see how I handled it in the Erotic Coupling story SwitcherooX2:

http://www.literotica.com/s/switcheroox2

 

[LissaSue]

I haven't seen any discussions in style authorities on this. In print, I'd handle the e-mail dailogue as extracts, indenting it to distinguish it from text. I haven't seen a way to extract in Lit. stories, though.

When I've done it for stories here, I've make the e-mail separate paragraphs, rendered in italics, with each e-mail followed by the e-mailer's name in full caps (and italicized). I submitted them with no extra spaces between the e-mail and the e-mailer's name, but the Lit. system put in an extra return. I think if I submitted a story like this again to Lit., I'd put the sender tag in parenthesis behind the e-mail entry so there was no line skip.

You can see how I handled it in the Erotic Coupling story SwitcherooX2:

http://www.literotica.com/s/switcheroox2

May I copy and send this info to my writer? It's very helpful!

 

[sr71plt]

May I copy and send this info to my writer? It's very helpful!

Sure.

 

[estragon]

You might also wish to read Sir_Nathan's classic story Culture_Shock, where he does several series of e-mail dialogues in brilliant style.