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Activity for Richie Hayes‭

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Edit Post #37742 Initial revision about 5 years ago
Edit Post #31940 Initial revision about 5 years ago
Question Formatting a conversation
In a novel, how would one best represent a recorded conversation between two people played back to a larger audience? The normal rules apply regarding quotation marks and beginning a new paragraph every time someone begins to speak but should the recorded conversation be italicized? Should the narrat...
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over 5 years ago
Question Secondary Dialogue
When writing a novel how would one best represent background dialogue from a radio or television that is perhaps only half heard by the characters but still important for the reader? Should I have the narrator state clearly that the conversation or broadcast is not being heard by the characters but s...
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about 6 years ago