Comments on: Dealing With A Character’s Internal Thoughts http://www.dailywritingtips.com/dealing-with-a-characters-internal-thoughts/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:36:00 -0500 hourly 1 By: Alexandra http://www.dailywritingtips.com/dealing-with-a-characters-internal-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-249279 Alexandra Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:54:22 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=1511#comment-249279 Don, If your story includes multiple personalities using the same brain, such as an artificial intelligence or insane individual you may have no choice but to use italics. It is the clearest manner in which you can convey which of the two is speaking. Don,

If your story includes multiple personalities using the same brain, such as an artificial intelligence or insane individual you may have no choice but to use italics. It is the clearest manner in which you can convey which of the two is speaking.

]]> By: Don Phillips http://www.dailywritingtips.com/dealing-with-a-characters-internal-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-196233 Don Phillips Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:18:58 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=1511#comment-196233 Question: What if a character has his thoughts invaded by an artificial intelligence? How would one represent the dialogue between the thought life conversation? Or how would one represent the diaplogue of two characters reading each other's thoughts in question and answer dialogue? Thanks! Question: What if a character has his thoughts invaded by an artificial intelligence? How would one represent the dialogue between the thought life conversation? Or how would one represent the diaplogue of two characters reading each other’s thoughts in question and answer dialogue?

Thanks!

]]> By: Chris http://www.dailywritingtips.com/dealing-with-a-characters-internal-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-73294 Chris Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:56:23 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=1511#comment-73294 Good advice. Sir John Mortimer was good with internal dialogue too. Good advice. Sir John Mortimer was good with internal dialogue too.

]]> By: Sandy S http://www.dailywritingtips.com/dealing-with-a-characters-internal-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-73217 Sandy S Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:02:30 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=1511#comment-73217 I use italics, but I am now beginning to reconsider that thought... Maybe I have that perspective problem PreciseEdit spoke of. Oh welll, that's what revision is for. I use italics, but I am now beginning to reconsider that thought…
Maybe I have that perspective problem PreciseEdit spoke of. Oh welll, that’s what revision is for.

]]> By: Teddy-the-Bear http://www.dailywritingtips.com/dealing-with-a-characters-internal-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-73018 Teddy-the-Bear Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:40:44 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=1511#comment-73018 I thought that the short story "2 AM and Counting" for the contest did a great job of expressing the main character's thoughts, without having to resort to quotation marks or italics. I thought that the short story “2 AM and Counting” for the contest did a great job of expressing the main character’s thoughts, without having to resort to quotation marks or italics.

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