Mark Shurtleff <gaijin@sfcmd.com> wrote:

At 06:08 PM 4/15/2003 -0500, Jon Rosebaugh wrote:

Many people run the thoughts into the text like that. It may take a little 
extra work, but you can get a lot more result out of it.

Actually, most standard fiction novels that I've read put the thoughts of a 
character in normal quotes and the use something like >>"I wonder who he 
is," she thought<< instead of she 'said'. I normally use italics for 
thoughts when I write, since I publish primarily to my web site from a Word 
source file.  The {{...}} convention is a compromise I use when converting 
to plain text format.

Whether to indicate thoughts with any sort of special delimeter is a
stylistic choice. But if you do use delimiters, there's no need for a
key which explains what they signify. Just about any reader will figure
them out as soon as he or she sees them in context, and explaining the
obvious can make your readers feel as though you're insulting their
intelligence.


Gary Kleppe
http://www.garykleppe.org/comics.html

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