Thursday, October 18, 2018

fiction - How to write a telephone conversation in a novel?


If Closed Captioning on TV is any guide, then dialogue heard over a phone would be in italics, not in quotes. The same would apply to dialogue audible when the phone is on speaker and as over a walkie-talkie.


The problem with that in a novel is that internal thoughts are indicated by italics. Too much italics? Confusion to the reader?


How to best write telephone conversations in a novel?




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