[mea] Re: Quotation mark usage
- From: Peters Susan <speters110@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:22:22 -0700
I don't know the context of the book, but I wonder if readers might be confused
about who is speaking. Perhaps that can be solved with a chapter title ("Bob
Smith and the Blizzard of 1949"), or with a 1-2 sentence introduction at the
beginning ("Bob Smith remembers the blizzard clearly"), or simply with a byline
or note at the end of the chapter: "Bob Smith survived the blizzard of 1949 and
later went on to work for the railroad. The cow was never found."
Susan
From: kirby.gilman@xxxxxxx
To: mea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:23:49 -0500
Subject: [mea] Re: Quotation mark usage
Thanks Clayton, good advice about consistency, and I think I'll probably go
with your suggestion about placing quotation marks before and after the entire
six paragraph section.
The dialogue I mentioned is actually spoken, not in-direct thoughts.
Kirby
----- Original Message -----
From: Clayton Bye <ccbye@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 6:42 pm
Subject: [mea] Re: Quotation mark usage
To: mea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On 17/04/2012 6:14 PM, Kirby Gilman wrote:
> >Hi folks,
> >I'm editing a memoir. One chapter is a page long and is all one
> speaker talking. It's split up into six paragraphs, with no-lead
> ins to who is speaking (always the same guy and it seems to work).
> >When are quotation marks used? Just one at the beginning of the
> chapter and one at the end? A new quotation mark at the start of
> each paragraph, but not one at the end of the paragraphs (except
> for the last paragraph)? A quotation mark at the beginning and
> end of each paragraph?
> >Hope this isn't too confusing,
> >Kirby
>
> There are many Schools of thought, Kirby. The most important
> thing you can do is be consistent in whatever you choose.
>
> For the full page, I would suggest a quotation when he begins
> speaking and one at the end of the six paragraphs. As for an
> entire chapter? Same thing, unless... Is this self-talk or is
> the guy actually speaking out loud. I ask, because one does not
> use quotations if he's just listening to the guy's thoughts.
> Understood?
> Clayton
>
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