This is what I found online to show you how it should look on the page. http://firstmanuscript.com/format-dialogue/ Basically: double quotations...
I usually see the usage of surnames dependent on the character. Mostly, I see this is done to bolster a sense of the character's strength or...
I have a "mentor" in my story. He is an old man, but his actions are morally ambiguous. He is also rather eccentric. He appears inconsistently and...
Z is for zeitgeist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist
This is an interesting idea! What this makes me think of is an old professor who wrote a book about the relationship of text to its footnotes. I...
Not throwing out or deleting my work.
"So often I come upon articles written by critics of the very highest brow, and by other prominent writers, deploring the attempts of ordinary...
Absolutely, this is true. But with highly evolved animals that understand that their existence ends when the environment can no longer sustain...
I like those points. I can see our species attacking incoming aliens. I've thought about that quite a bit. Aliens who have watched our...
We substituted grain for grasses in the diets of our livestock (in America). As for grains for us, they were the basis for civilization. Look back...
From the same brain, H.G. Wells' Time Machine relays the story of Earth splitting into two species: the Morlocks and the Eloi. The Morlock live...
Yes! Probably, I know that some towns are shutting down libraries or crippling them by killing their budgets. That is extremely frustrating. I...
Santa Barbara City College (Santa Barbara, CA) and University of California, Davis (Davis, CA). I went to both of those schools but you can also...
If the book inside your book is stylistically different enough, your reader should be able to differentiate between the two "worlds". When I say...
Have you tried Google Scholar? https://scholar.google.com/ Also, Project Gutenberg for fiction: https://www.gutenberg.org/ Is there a community...
Separate names with a comma.