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FrickingKaos:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 04, 2021, 09:59:55 PM ---Here's some random writing questions for today:
Is it "Chapter One" or "Chapter 1"?
I always do Chapter 1.
If you have more than one scene in a chapter, what kind of scene break do you use to split them up?
I just kind of space things out a little to transition between scenes.
If you want to designate that something is a flashback or happened in the past, how do you designate it?
Bold, italics, or underlining? I use italics.
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nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 04, 2021, 10:09:00 PM ---scene breaks. Is that what you're asking?
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That's the phrase I was missing, thanks!
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 04, 2021, 10:09:00 PM ---Is it "Chapter One" or "Chapter 1"?
Chapter 1. As someone who has written stories with over 100 chapters, I don't wanna have to write out "Chapter One Hundred Seventy-Seven" in words LOL.
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Boo! Lazy!
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 04, 2021, 10:09:00 PM ---If you have more than one scene in a chapter, how do you split them up?
I use *** for scene breaks. Or, as Text to Speech man would say, "Asterisk asterisk asterisk" LMAO. Is that what you're asking?
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Please just start typing "asterisk asterisk asterisk" for your scene breaks. I would laugh so hard.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 04, 2021, 10:09:00 PM ---If you want to designate that something is a flashback or happened in the past, how do you designate it?
I write ~*~*~*~*~*~fLAsHbAcK!1!~*~*~*~*~*~*~
LOL Actually, I just put it in italics.
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I see your shade for my buddy "~*~"... But at least you wrote flashback correctly.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 04, 2021, 10:09:00 PM ---Bold, italics, or underlining?
I use italics for words that are emphasized in dialogue, as well as inner thoughts and flashbacks or dream sequences. I don't use bold much other than for chapter titles and when describing what signs say. I don't really use underlining in fanfics.
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Poor underlining. It's the Howie of formatting.
FrickingKaos:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 04, 2021, 09:40:21 PM ---Did you feel like the multiple developing drafts were helpful in your planning process and do you find them preferable to an outline? Or do you consider the timeline to be your outline?
The timeline was basically my outline, where it told me what the boys were doing at exactly that point in that year. It was super helpful to just have to fill in and interpret what I felt happened according to the story. It worked really well and made the story seem realistic. At least for me it did.
Did you have the Finding Carter outline from the beginning or just once you got to the point where you figured it out? I did that with PBox. The beginning I kind of meandered, but I had a very brief outline for every chapter from 31 on.
I didn't really outline it but I knew what I wanted to accomplish and what I wanted Nick to accomplish during the story so that helped some. The ending pretty much wrote itself once I got to it. I always have a bit of a hard time with endings.
I know the jokes are great, but didn't want this to get lost!
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nicksgal:
Is it "Chapter One" or "Chapter 1"?
Chapter One: "Title of Chapter One" of course.
If you have more than one scene in a chapter, what kind of scene break do you use to split them up?
This little guy, because it's pretty and I'm an aging teeny: ~*~
If you want to designate that something is a flashback or happened in the past, how do you designate it?
italics
Bold, italics, or underlining?
Italics for emphasis, flashbacks, other people's quotes that characters are thinking about, I've done it for text messages... I honestly don't do anything special formatting-wise to designate a thought. Is that bad? Should I start doing that?
Bold is usually signs or something like every time Nick looked at his phone to see the time in my holiday story.
I think I used an underline once when a character saw a book title? I can't remember.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: FrickingKaos on February 04, 2021, 10:14:03 PM ---Is it "Chapter One" or "Chapter 1"?
I always do Chapter 1.
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Y'all and your numbers...
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