Timeline for Is there a standard for dealing with lyrics in dialogue and narration in creative writing?
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| Jun 18, 2020 at 17:17 | comment | added | ArtickokeAndAnchovyPizzaMonica | As a note @Ice-9, this was also done by Tolkien. | |
| Jun 17, 2020 at 9:43 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 3, 2020 at 21:07 | answer | added | claire | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 8, 2019 at 18:02 | history | edited | Cyn |
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| Aug 28, 2017 at 16:07 | answer | added | Dung Maurice | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 13:30 | vote | accept | Ice-9 | ||
| Oct 20, 2014 at 17:28 | answer | added | MiraAstar | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 14:47 | answer | added | AmanteDelDio | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 2, 2014 at 13:39 | comment | added | Ice-9 | I'd agree with you there, @CLockeWork. In Roald Dahl's work, he used to do that all the time when he put songs into the narrative, but I've never seen him do just one or two lines in dialogue. Generally speaking though, most of what I read doesn't have songs or song lyrics featured in the work itself and it seems like most resources don't even touch on the subject. Maybe I shouldn't be putting so much focus on the other editor's changes... but they're just so weird I can't help thinking there's something I don't know that they did. | |
| May 1, 2014 at 15:35 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackWriters/status/461891597169594368 | ||
| May 1, 2014 at 8:09 | comment | added | CLockeWork | I can't say for definite but whenever I've encountered lyrics in a narrative they've been italicised, centre aligned and separated from the surrounding text. Of course, if a person were singing, then I would assume that dialogue formatting would take precedent. This is only anecdotal though. | |
| Apr 30, 2014 at 19:31 | history | asked | Ice-9 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |