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 Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:00 pm
Recently my friend and I were having a conversation as I was editing his story. We were talking about thoughts in writing. hen I write, I italicize the text when the person is thinking. My friend puts "quotation marks" around it and I have read some books where they have 'apostrophies' around the thoughts. I want to know if there is a "correct" way to do character thoughts or if it's just a matter of opinion and what your opinion on the matter is.
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:53 am
I also have read books that have used one or the other. I do not believe that there is a right or wrong way to define a character's thoughts when writing.
Personally, I use italics because of the font and size that I type in. I know some people who bold or even use a differenet font to seperate thought from everything else
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:28 am
Ever_lasting_Flame
I also have read books that have used one or the other. I do not believe that there is a right or wrong way to define a character's thoughts when writing.
Personally, I use italics because of the font and size that I type in. I know some people who bold or even use a differenet font to seperate thought from everything else
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:47 pm
I also italicize. Personally, I think doing anything else would be super confusing. I mean, why put apostrophes or quotation marks? Quotation marks signify dialogue, and apostrophes just... don't make sense... razz
Yes, all editors do hate font modifiers. I actually know this from experience... ninja
Anyway, the best thing to do in the case of editors is to put /'s at the beginning and ending of thoughts. For example:
/Why would he?/ she contemplated mentally, chewing on the tip of her pen, looking absentmindedly straight at the boy diagonal to her.
That is the most common thing people do if such a thing as font modifiers aren't around. So that'd be the best to do. cool
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Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 10:03 am
Hmm, why don't editors like font modifiers? Is it because of a computer program they use maybe? And are you talking about magazine editors or book editors? or is it both?
I prefer using italics, but I don't think it matters as long as the reader can figgure out what you're doing.
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 6:25 pm
I actually go with the whole Joycean bit - a lot of my stories have no markers for conversation or thoughts. i dunno, it seems pretentious to raise a characters thoughts to italics or whatnot.
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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:56 am
I tend to use ' for thoughts
'I want some cake' She thought to herself....
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 11:37 pm
I tend to use italics also.
However, if I add 'she thought' or 'he thought' after every thought in a story, I leave it by itself. Such as...
I wonder how I'm supposed to emphasize a thought, she thought to herself.
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