: Re: The difference between dialogue marks Most authors use dialogue in writing, especially when writing fiction. Now, if I remember my first grade primary school correctly, dialogue can be directly

I want to add a piece of trivia from a book a read.
In the book, the author used two types of marking for dialogue. He used thing like

I was walking down the hallway, when I heard over my shoulder:

â€“ Hey, dickface !

to express oral speech, and

Â«HelloÂ» I answered.

to express conversations that where happening telepathically.

As you guessed, this book had a fantasy setting, and the author used both formats to easily inform the reader HOW the conversation was currently handled.

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: Re: The difference between dialogue marks Most authors use dialogue in writing, especially when writing fiction. Now, if I remember my first grade primary school correctly, dialogue can be directly

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: Elongated vowel sounds When we speak sometimes we draw out certain sounds for emphasis. We also see this technique in song, for both emphasis as well as expanding the meter to make the words

: It might be worth pointing out that the hoof of, say, a horse, is essentially a single toe. https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/horse/the-evolution-of-horses/on-your-toes I can't speak for the evolution

: Exhaustive research vs artistic license? I'm working on a post-apocalypse novel set all over the world. I'm fairly flexible on where some of the events take place, but there are often specific

: In the Windows version of Scrivener for Screenplay formatting, how do format for action/dialogue/shot? There is a way to automatically change the indices to respect whether it is a line of dialogue

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