: Re: How do I create dialog when the story is told in letters by the protagonist? I am writing a historical novel, and the gist of it that these will be letters found by ancestors in the 21st

You could just treat the letters as snapshots. (I dont exactly know how to articulate what I'm thinking, so bear with me.) But if the story is one person finding a bunch of letters through which the story is told...

Main character (MC) could be reading through and imagining the letters like little scenes. Let's say MC finds letters of correspondence between Jack and Jill. If Jill details about how a robber broke into her home and she was scared, you could slip into first person narration from Jill's perspective. You could have interjections (maybe in italics) of how the MC is interpreting or thinking about stuff. It would allow you to tell through this medium of a letter while still maintaining a more traditional storytelling style of narration.

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