OK then, good enough for me. Thanks.
If I didn't have the "blah blah blah" in there, would it be clear--using single quotes--that it was something Nancy might say, as opposed to...
In the following example: "Always the same with you Nancy, 'Clean up after yourself, ya dirty old fool--blah blah blah--If this place isn't...
No, I'm not trying to be fancy. But I just feel like the dialogue is so outside the core of the story, which is what's going on inside the...
Interesting, thanks BrianIff, but something about this doesn't sit well with me. It seems to blur, if not confuse, the line between first person...
I was reading something about expressing inner dialog in a story and it said you could use italics to punctuate these sections. But what about...
It absolutely is very bouncy and flashy--mostly humorous--prose. It's completely appropriate to do this in the story. I'm just not sure about how...
I'm wondering about expressing action sounds in a piece of writing. Not so much how to spell them out, but how to format it. What's the correct...
Yeah I know what you're saying and I agree with it. But it's hard to know what a reader might consider relevant, and even necessary, to...
Yeah I think you are right. There were parts of the story that I felt the reader would need some context for, but maybe not. It's hard to know...
I'm in the middle of my first short story. It's science fiction and takes place in the future. I would like to explain to the reader how the...
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