Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
One of the characters in my novel is a novelist. Other characters quote his work, and in one chapter, he gives a reading with longer excerpts. I am struggling to format this material. all quoted material is fictional too as i wrote it.
In dialogue, (" ") when others are quoting lines from his books: do direct quotes of his material get an extra ' ' or appear in italics, or does it just appear in regular text? surely i need to show it is a quote.
During his reading, where he is reading from his own novels, how do i format this? - do i have to show with ' ' it is a quote, as above, or just let him speak as normal, even it is a direct quote from his work?
there are also parts where people are simply reading from the books. and i quote longer chunks of the novels, do i skip the ' ' , use italics instead, do they get line breaks?
are there some good examples in famous works where these situations appear as a cross reference. - book parts within novels, etc.
thanks, EM
One of the characters in my novel is a novelist. Other characters quote his work, and in one chapter, he gives a reading with longer excerpts. I am struggling to format this material. all quoted material is fictional too as i wrote it.
In dialogue, (" ") when others are quoting lines from his books: do direct quotes of his material get an extra ' ' or appear in italics, or does it just appear in regular text? surely i need to show it is a quote.
During his reading, where he is reading from his own novels, how do i format this? - do i have to show with ' ' it is a quote, as above, or just let him speak as normal, even it is a direct quote from his work?
there are also parts where people are simply reading from the books. and i quote longer chunks of the novels, do i skip the ' ' , use italics instead, do they get line breaks?
are there some good examples in famous works where these situations appear as a cross reference. - book parts within novels, etc.
thanks, EM