If I could change anything about how we do the workshops in class, I would suggest maybe allowing everyone to say something about the story to begin with and then have an open discussion among classmates. I feel like everyone mentioned something that I wanted to talk about, but I was not able to do so because my turn was already over (don't get me wrong... I'm good at taking turns. I just like the open discussion more).
I liked the fact that everyone had their ideas and could relate to the story in a different way. It's the magic of writing that someone that doesn't know you can move you with a sentence or a word. I liked the story! What more can I say?
I am curious as to what is the correct way for punctuating thoughts or ideas. I know that some people said that the thoughts were confusing in the story because they were in quotation marks similar to those used in actual dialog. It was also confusing to me. Do you use single quotation marks? Do you use double quotation marks? Do you put thoughts in italics? I don't know the answer. Someone help me!
I couldn't agree with you more! I think sometimes during a setting like this, our thoughts best come alive when provoked by the others in the workshop with us. The open discussion would be great even if we only used a few mins before the writer of the piece. Also, I do believe Ms. Fried said that we should put the thoughts in italics.
ReplyDeleteBrittany, thanks for letting me know that thoughts should be in italics. :)
DeleteAs far as internal dialogue goes, for me I tend to use the italics form of internal dialogue when I write from the characters p.o.v., as it helps me to separate the internal dialogue from the external dialogue. But when I talk of the characters thoughts form a third person point of view, I tend not to use anything to show that it is separate, most suggest just using it as a normal line format like any other sentence.
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