I put this in grammar syntax, but maybe I have better luck here. Any help or suggestions 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 allocate the lines to him.
During his reading, where he is reading from his own novels, how do i format this? - do i have to show with ' ' that 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 include longer chunks of the novels. Do i skip the ' ' , use italics instead. How do the line breaks and indents go?
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 allocate the lines to him.
During his reading, where he is reading from his own novels, how do i format this? - do i have to show with ' ' that 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 include longer chunks of the novels. Do i skip the ' ' , use italics instead. How do the line breaks and indents go?
are there some good examples in famous works where these situations appear as a cross reference. - book parts within novels, etc.
thanks, EM