: Re: How to format multiple inner voices, differentiating the text from dialogue? and omnipresent inner voice For the occasional use of inner voice, Italics are usually recommended. However I have

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If you are self-publishing, or can discuss it with your publisher, you could use a second font.
This question is a matter of style, so there are a few ways you could do it, but I want to try and generalise them:

Implicit

Sentence structure and narrative
Using an indicator such as - or () around the thought

Explicit

Italics / Bold or similar
Different font (changing from say, Times New Roman to Arial)
Stating it was a thought "the voice said" vs "he thought"

I personally would use a mixture of those things. In my story, I use italics for thoughts and quoted italics for speech.

An implicit approach could be:

"Do you understand?" They asked. - No, I don't - but then their voice came again,
this time from everywhere. Their lips didn't move. "Perhaps you
understand now?"

So an explicit approach could be:

"Do you understand?" They asked.

No, I don't, I thought.

Then their voice came again, only this time as an echo in the mind. "Perhaps you understand now?"

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