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In course of joining a friend of mine during her NaNoWriMo escapades, I tried myself at actually writing a story set in a world I'm building. I've found there are certain rules when writing a nove...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T10:12:03Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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dot_Sp0T
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2019-12-08T10:12:03Z (almost 5 years ago)
In course of joining a friend of mine during her NaNoWriMo escapades, I tried myself at _actually writing a story_ set in a world I'm building. I've found there are certain _rules_ when writing a novel. E.g. moving to a new paragraph each time another person talks. What I haven't yet found is any rule or consensus on **how to stylize notes or book-passages that are being read by a character inside my story**. I actually haven't found anything on the subject and I fear it's due to me taping into new territory, not knowing the proper words & designations for things. I was considering doing something along the lines of putting the written bits into their own paragraph after indicating there being a note, or something else. > There was no Corbett, the chair he had occupied empty. The only sign of evidence that he had sat there just a minute ago was a note sitting on the counter: > _Decided to leave before it gets hairy. Put it on my tab. Pleasure._ Is there any consensus on how to handle such things, or is what I am doing perfectly fine? What are commonly used alternatives?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2018-11-18T13:36:06Z (about 6 years ago)
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