{"id":3887,"date":"2020-12-14T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WP\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2020-12-14T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T14:00:11","slug":"your-characters-think-but-how-do-you-write-their-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/book\/your-characters-think-but-how-do-you-write-their-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Characters Think, But How Do You Write Their Thoughts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>hinking is one thing, we all thing. However, when a character thinks how do you write that? There are three ways:<\/p>\n

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  1. Use italics – we don’t like this as it makes your pages look – well – just plain weird.<\/li>\n
  2. Use single quotes – we do not like this at all. Quotation
    \n\"File:Blue marks are for spoken dialogue and only that.<\/li>\n
  3. And our favorite is: Write, ‘he thought,’ or ‘she thought.’ This brings your characters thoughts into the book with no obvious change in font. This is my personal favorite and the one I use in all my fiction projects.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Additional Thoughts<\/strong><\/p>\n

    In the United States we enclose dialogue within double quotation marks. The British use single quotation marks.And, punctuation goes within the quotation marks.<\/p>\n

    If the dialogue ends with an ellipsis, do not add a comma or any other punctuation.<\/p>\n

    Isn’t that about what you thought? Let me hear from you in the comments below and tell me what you think your thoughts are.<\/p>\n

    Like this sort of thing? Read more of my published work at my publication’s page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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