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7933091 No.7933091 [Reply] [Original]

>novel uses italics to emphasize sentences in narration and character's speech

>> No.7933124

Italics are for internal dialogue, period.

>> No.7933133
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7933133

>novel has words
>isnt just a container for a block of piss preserved with cutting edge chemicals so you can taste it and infer everything the author wanted to say from its varying levels of saccharinity

>> No.7933134

>>7933124
This. The *only* use for italics.

>> No.7933182

I think it's ok if the narrator forms his own idioms. For example, if Holden's Phonies had been termed "outs", then I would consider it acceptable to italicise "outs" when he is using it in that way.

>> No.7933933

>>7933091
So is this actually a thing frowned upon? Or are we just being fucking autists right now?

>> No.7934013

>>7933134
*Kek*

>> No.7934019
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>>7933933
The second thing you said is what is happening.

>> No.7934052

>>7933933
Where do you think you are, anon?

I personally couldn't care less.

>> No.7935086

>>7933091
>novel uses italics to show shifts in time

>> No.7935092

>>7934052
*could care less

>> No.7935100

>>7933091
>novel is filled with footnotes, actually this edition has more footnotes than actual text.

>> No.7935112

>>7933091
>is a novel

>> No.7935121

>>7935092
well memed

>> No.7935134

>>7933933
Both, but as with so many rules, sometimes someone breaks them and it just works™

>> No.7935161
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7935161

>novel uses a wacky font whenever a black person talks

>> No.7935417

Wait, then how the fuck am I supposed to accentuate the speeches!? What kind of bullshit autistic post is this?! You might as well say,
>novel is written

>> No.7935528
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>>7933091
>each chapter of the novel is from the perspective of a different character

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>>7933091

>reader reads a line in his/her mind without emphasising the right part

>> No.7935607

>book has publishing details

just get to the fucking story

>> No.7935610

>>7935417
A good author can phrase it in such a way that the reader assumes correctly.

>> No.7935618
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>dedicated to my loving wife

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>>7935092

You fly boys really crack me up.

>> No.7935666

>>7933134

/lit/ has the best banter.

>> No.7935672

>can be downloaded

>> No.7935803

>>7935610
Please insert an example. I'd love to hear someone who manages to do that. I wanna know what kind of wizard managed to do this.

>> No.7935817

>>7933133
Topkek.

>> No.7935821

>>7935092
Y-you sure there, anon?

>> No.7936838

>>7935610
You and your friend are sitting in a room having a lovely conversation when all of a sudden a demon(!) says,

'Steal your friends wallet.'(that dubious bastard!), in the back of your mind.

Your friend looks offended, and asks why you would want to steal your own best friend's wallet. (you think you know a guy)
It's at this moment you realize you are insane and begin killing your friend violently with the rose garnished teal vase which sat nearby on the coffee table. The one your wife had bought last week while you both vacationed in Tyler to escape the frigid early winter, and which you hated so much, the both of them. Your friend was clearly the demon-- you continue to crush at what remains of intact skull and jaw bone, reaching for another solid object as the pieces of vase begin cutting your hand and don't crush well. Blood and grey matter glisten as a dew drop carefully placed on the rose petals sleeping atop his friends damp jacket.

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>>7936838

lol.

>> No.7936949

>>7935821
M-muh-m-m-m-maybe??

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>>7935161

>> No.7938511

>>7933133
I'm fucking dying over here

>> No.7938561

>>7936838
what?

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>>7938561
Sometimes you've gotta use italics, bruh

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>>7933124
>Italics are for internal dialogue, period.

No, try again, Senpai.

Italics are a common and obvious crutch for poorly read and otherwise stupid writers with weak prose.

Other similar crutches are bold font and em dashes outside of dialogue.

>> No.7939325

>>7939278
nice bait tripshit

>> No.7939605

>>7936838
Thank you.

>> No.7940660

>>7939605
'Thank you' for what?

>> No.7940752

>>7933182
That would just get distracting. If it's done well, it can become part of the character without having to make the word stick out like a sore thumb on the page

>> No.7940759

>>7935092
This got a decent chuckle out of me

>> No.7941787

>>7935086
Sound and the Fury GTFO

>> No.7942680

>>7933133
I love you