Timeline for Internal thoughts or just narration?
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| Mar 3, 2021 at 18:04 | comment | added | SF. | @ErinTesden It's a bit of a crutch, but if you have problems distinguishing them from general narration (and want to distinguish them, which is a purely stylistic choice!), feel free to use it. It's the easy way out, and as such, a little cheap so only use it if you have problems achieving that just by mastery of style and language. | |
| Mar 3, 2021 at 17:50 | comment | added | Erin Tesden | Understood. I'm curious about this, what is your opinion on italicized text for thoughts. I've seen some people thing this is wrong, while others that is the standar thing to do. | |
| Mar 2, 2021 at 18:14 | comment | added | SF. | @ErinTesden In that case your narrator can't know thoughts of others - but you can freely use thoughts of the 'current focus' without quotes, mixing them with narration. OTOH shifting focus like that tends to be more confusing than switching POV character between sections/chapters. | |
| Mar 2, 2021 at 17:07 | comment | added | Erin Tesden | One thing. Technically I'm using the third person limited, not ominicient. If it looked like I was, that's probably a mistake in my part. The problem is, I have two characters I use mainly for povs. So using first person is not really an option for me. Because the POV shifts would feel weird in first person. | |
| Mar 2, 2021 at 11:07 | history | answered | SF. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |