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I can think of a few options: Indent the story-within-a-story and treat dialogue normally (just double quotes). Put your Aesop section in italics, the story-within-a-story in book, and treat all ...
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2019-12-13T12:00:34Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T05:02:08Z (almost 5 years ago)
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I can think of a few options: - Indent the story-within-a-story and treat dialogue normally (just double quotes). - Put your Aesop section in italics, the story-within-a-story in book, and treat all dialogue normally. - Use some kind of scene break formatting (extra returns, a dingbat, a string of \* \* \* \* ) to indicate "this is the story within the story" and treat all dialogue normally. If the story-within-a-story starts in the Aesop section, use nested quotes, but then when you break to the other section, resume normal quotes. If this were TV, imagine you're shifting scenes from seeing Aesop tell the story to actually watching the characters themselves act out the story.
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2016-02-13T23:59:43Z (almost 9 years ago)
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