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When writing in the first person, how do you visually describe details of a specific object, such as words written on a piece of paper? Take this for example: What was his name? That's somethi...
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System
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2019-12-08T05:57:31Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Kyle Li
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2019-12-08T05:57:31Z (almost 5 years ago)
When writing in the first person, how do you visually describe details of a specific object, such as words written on a piece of paper? Take this for example: > What was his name? That's something he never bothered with before - something completely irrelevant to him over the past few days. He looked around the room for ideas, his eyes landing on a scrap of paper half torn vertically with rough handwritten letters, the second halves of the words showing. > > 'Ress.' > > 'En.' > > "I - my name is Ressen." **The primary issues** with this is that is that I want to reveal a piece of information, primarily the letters 'Ress' and 'En' that appear above and below each other respectively. However, I'm unsure of the correct way to format this. I have seen that some authors center the text that they are aiming to convey through an image of the paper that's ripped, with the text inside of it. However, I also see some authors do what I have included in my example, and others centering it. Is there some kind of universal method to do something like this?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2017-01-18T11:10:08Z (almost 8 years ago)
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