Author |
Message |
|
JenKM1216 |
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:58 pm |
|
|
Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Posts: 23
|
I was wondering about how to write unspoken dialouge within the text. I know that spoken dialouge is surrounded by double quotations. I have seen stories with several different styles of how they write thoughts. Italics, singel quotations, ect. I just wanted to know what the accepted style for this is. |
|
|
Back to top |
|
Metamuse |
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:43 pm |
|
|
Site Admin
Joined: 28 Nov 2004
Posts: 475
Location: USA
|
JenKM1216 wrote: I was wondering about how to write unspoken dialouge within the text. I know that spoken dialouge is surrounded by double quotations. I have seen stories with several different styles of how they write thoughts. Italics, singel quotations, ect. I just wanted to know what the accepted style for this is.
For thoughts you can use either italics or single quotation marks, but once you decide on one make sure to keep it throughout the story for consistency. Italics might be best though because in British writing single quotation marks are standard instead of double, double is an American standard. |
_________________ MetaMuse
Wannabe Admin, but the other Admins kick me out of the sand box to play with the technical and managerial aspects of the site. |
|
Back to top |
|
liquidscissors |
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:28 am |
|
|
Moderator
Joined: 27 Dec 2004
Posts: 164
|
Italics are fast becoming the internet norm for indicating thoughts that are without in-line context. It saves a lot of cross-cultural snafus and general punctuation wars. |
|
|
Back to top |
|
|