: Format of a song in writing a novel In my novel, I am writing a scene where my character digs up a memory of a song a lady sung to him in the past. He runs into the lady again, several
In my novel, I am writing a scene where my character digs up a memory of a song a lady sung to him in the past. He runs into the lady again, several years later and he is recanting the song to her.
Would the song be a new paragraph and in single quotes/double quotes or italics?
Example below:
“Yousif, what did you just say?†she asked with a puzzled look.
He stood from the seat before hoarsely muttering the song again, “And you live a life worth living and you make my world—â€
She scooted up in the bed and quickly straightened herself up.
So the songs is, "And you live a life worth living...."
I've seen places where a whole song starts in a new paragraph and formatted in the center of the script.
Thanks in advance.
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The center justification is called a "block quote" and should be used when the quote is typically four or more lines. Typically I see songs broken in rhyming couplets for normal quotes, so you may want to break the quote in a format such that:
"[Song line one]," He sang, "[Song Line Two]"
I would treat it like it was a quotation. Because it is direct speech, it means that there would be inverted commas within inverted commas.
"'And you live a life worth living and you make my world --'"
By the way, you use a dash at the end which indicates he is interrupted, but you don't include the interruption.
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