Somebody wrote:

The style I've been attempting is:
   Action, unquoted third person past tense.
   Dialogue, quoted second person present tense.
   Thought, unquoted first person present tense.

     That is standard writing style for most 3rd person books.

The problem is that the difference between Thought and Action is too
subtle.  Thought needs to be quoted somehow, but I don't really like any
of the alternatives.
Double quotes: Confused with Dialogue.
Single quotes: Confused with Dialogue.
Fancy quotes: Turns into junk in ASCII-7.
Angle Brackets: Bothers HTML.
Braces: Too silly.
What we <i>really</i> want is italics, but there's no standard,
uncluttered, way of transmitting that.  (Anybody for a Brace to italic
filter?)

I use astericks for thought. I've also seen double colons.
Examples *...insert thought...* or ::...instert thought...::

Windlily

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