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Q&A Telephone Conversations

The Situation: I am writing a short story. My POV character is listening to another person having a telephone conversation. The POV character only hears the one person speaking and not the response...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Walter Sanville‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Prahara‭

Question formatting format
#4: Question reopened by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2020-05-04T02:56:22Z (almost 4 years ago)
#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T12:57:31Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/48006
License name: CC BY-SA 4.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Walter Sanville‭ · 2019-12-08T12:57:31Z (over 4 years ago)
The Situation: I am writing a short story. My POV character is listening to another person having a telephone conversation. The POV character only hears the one person speaking and not the responses.

My Question: How should the one-sided phone conversation be formatted for a short story?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-09-15T20:08:36Z (over 4 years ago)
Original score: 0