If I was a mag editor I wouldnt want the same guy winning every month incase everyone else started thinking it knew the guy and was rigging it for...
Ok so lets pretend there is a writing magazine that runs a competition once a month. you can submit any story of any genre etc. Lets also...
in which case i think im confused.... what am I talking about?
every book I read the first line of the first paragraph is not indented. The following is a clip from trudi canavan's the ambassadors mission...
if it was me personally I would pick out maybe 7 or 8 words that he puts a heavy irish accent on regularly with the odd exception, kinda like his...
The wee free men by terry pratchet give a good example of what your trying to achieve here "ye ken?" "Ye've got tae let me go sooner or...
yup yup but i mean the very first paragraph. in a block of text/paragraphs the very first one isnt indented. does that apply to dialouge also?
I often think that about my writing but I submitted something that I felt was a good example of being too brief for it to win first prize in a...
That was 100% pure genius! I darent follow through with my version now incase I taint what this story has achived! Very very good
So normally your first paragraph would look something like this. It has no indent untill the next paragraph. Like this. So then if you were to...
This is what I was poorly attempting to achieve with the whole italics and 'im the narator' thing. I wanted it to be seperate from the action in...
~Ben is the one talking in italics, the reason I chose italics is so you know ben is speaking to the narrator without everyone around him hearing....
hence my problem :p I cant present the two characters clearly to begin with. I had hoped that ben mentioning the way the narrator used the...
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