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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc
drewavera:
i appreciate the thoughts. im feeling pretty good about the third person narrative so far. i do have another question. when you do lengthy dialouge coming from a character when they tell a story, how do you use the quotation marks for the paragraph breaks? for example my character tells a story that requires about 5 paragraphs and there are some quotes inside that story, so do I throw the quotes at the beginning of the story and the end of it like a term paper where i steal info off google or do i put quotations for each paragraph? i hope this is an easy question to understand...
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: drewavera on September 13, 2012, 11:02:33 AM ---i appreciate the thoughts. im feeling pretty good about the third person narrative so far. i do have another question. when you do lengthy dialouge coming from a character when they tell a story, how do you use the quotation marks for the paragraph breaks? for example my character tells a story that requires about 5 paragraphs and there are some quotes inside that story, so do I throw the quotes at the beginning of the story and the end of it like a term paper where i steal info off google or do i put quotations for each paragraph? i hope this is an easy question to understand...
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The standard I was taught at school, fwiw, is to put a quotation mark at the start of each paragraph of dialogue, but at the end of the last one only.
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on September 13, 2012, 01:24:05 PM ---The standard I was taught at school, fwiw, is to put a quotation mark at the start of each paragraph of dialogue, but at the end of the last one only.
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This is what I've seen in several books that have long narrative dialogue. The one that comes to mind most readily is Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice, which is pretty much almost all one character telling a story.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
So tonight I worked on several different things, about 1100 words here and there, but solved a couple of plot problems with the next thing, which always feels like work.
Normally, in my working directory for any given project, I have a file or two of notes, and a file called "plan" which is basically the chapter-by-chapter breakdown with everything that needs to go into the chapters - a sizable lump for chapters not written, and updated with what needs to go where earlier if I figure it out as I go along. With the current multi-book series I have different files for the different volumes, so the one I fixed tonight is "plan4". I have only just realised that given this working schema, there is a categorical imperative to take this series to nine books. Because it is, after all, from outer space.
gatordave96:
Made it to 168k today. Working on the climax of the novel, at least for one character. Wish I had more time in the average week to work on it, but you know how that goes.
So can anyone tell me how they plan to celebrate when they finally finish their next book? Fireworks? Champagne? A nice nap? ;D
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