Page 3 of 10 FirstFirst 123456789 ... LastLast
Results 31 to 45 of 148

Thread: The OOC Thread

  1. #31
    Newbie Administrator Loony BoB's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2000
    Posts
    52,431
    Articles
    53
    Blog Entries
    19

    FFXIV Character

    Loony Bob (Twintania)

    Default

    I'm actually trying to add line breaks to some posts right now, I hope nobody minds. Although there are some sentences so long that they could be an entire paragraph on their own...
    Quote Originally Posted by Sephiroth
    To focus on one person that was excited was no use here as there were enough surrounding them and of which he couldn't totally avoid to deceive that were enough to put down the scale to a depressing negativity so it was better to use his empathy skills by focussing on a mass of people at once with their mixed feelings and holding the balance as well this way.
    It may be worth going over that part and re-writing it a bit, because it confused the hell out of me. >_>;
    Bow before the mighty Javoo!

  2. #32
    'Just Friends' Formalhaut's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2007
    Location
    Glenwood
    Posts
    13,325
    Articles
    54
    Blog Entries
    5

    Default

    I'm definitely not a creative writer. I've hardly ever written anything in my life. So each time someone else speaks, I have to go onto a new paragraph? I'd have like ten paragraphs for a simple two way conversation!

    I think I'll read some of other people's and try to emulate how they write.


  3. #33
    Newbie Administrator Loony BoB's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2000
    Posts
    52,431
    Articles
    53
    Blog Entries
    19

    FFXIV Character

    Loony Bob (Twintania)

    Default

    It definitely makes it easier to go to a new line for a new speaker, yeah. You may end up with 10 "paragraphs" but more likely they will be short lines.

    Here are some neat tips, but you certainly don't need to read through everything. I would say #10 is the most relevant point to what we're talking about here.
    Bow before the mighty Javoo!

  4. #34
    'Just Friends' Formalhaut's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2007
    Location
    Glenwood
    Posts
    13,325
    Articles
    54
    Blog Entries
    5

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
    It definitely makes it easier to go to a new line for a new speaker, yeah. You may end up with 10 "paragraphs" but more likely they will be short lines.

    Here are some neat tips, but you certainly don't need to read through everything.
    Fair enough. It might look abit odd though, having ten short snippety lines. I suppose I should though. Thanks for the tips Mae and BoB.


  5. #35
    Newbie Administrator Loony BoB's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2000
    Posts
    52,431
    Articles
    53
    Blog Entries
    19

    FFXIV Character

    Loony Bob (Twintania)

    Default

    No worries. One thing we may need to agree on is how to write out thoughts. There are multiple ways to do this and none are known to me as "the right way" or "the wrong way"... some involve speech marks, some involve italics, some involve both. I think italics is the best option, but I'm not sure if speech marks would be needed...
    Bow before the mighty Javoo!

  6. #36
    'Just Friends' Formalhaut's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2007
    Location
    Glenwood
    Posts
    13,325
    Articles
    54
    Blog Entries
    5

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
    No worries. One thing we may need to agree on is how to write out thoughts. There are multiple ways to do this and none are known to me as "the right way" or "the wrong way"... some involve speech marks, some involve italics, some involve both. I think italics is the best option, but I'm not sure if speech marks would be needed...
    I'm unsure with thoughts as well. So far, I've let my third person narration do the work. I suppose italics? That's a good point actually. I might include more thoughts in the future.


  7. #37
    Pinkasaurus Rex Pumpkin's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2011
    Location
    Falling on your head
    Posts
    16,902
    Articles
    119
    Blog Entries
    133

    FFXIV Character

    Pumpkin Contrary (Sargatanas)
    Contributions
    • Former Editor
    • Former Cid's Knight

    Default

    Yeah sorry, I debated changing lines for every sentence when I was doing Kathvi and Jahred (because that's normally how I write) but I didn't know how it worked for this type of thing . Hopefully it wasn't too hard to read.

    But now I know!

  8. #38
    Mr. Smiles Kossage's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2003
    Location
    Duckburg, Finland
    Posts
    830

    Default

    I've always written direct thoughts in italics without speech marks. Italics also serve the function of emphasizing certain words in descriptive sentences or dialogue in general.

    And yeah, separating each person's dialogue by a paragraph makes it easier to read. Sometimes, if one character has a longer monologue, I tend to separate that monologue into multiple paragraphs too for readability's sake, but this is simply a personal preference.
    How I met your mother, Donald Duck's parents style! Love at first temper tantrum!


    Facebook | Last.fm | LiveJournal | MyAnimeList | tGAWiki

  9. #39
    The Nerd Who Knows Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2005
    Location
    Somewhere New
    Posts
    3,089
    Blog Entries
    3

    Default

    Because my character Jhera can only communicate via telepathy, I use italics to annotate that telepathic communication. I usually try to write something like 'he thought to himself' so you know when he is thinking and not telepathing.

    <PaperStar> live fast, die young, bad plefs do it well

  10. #40
    Word Engineer Miss Mae's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2013
    Location
    Maroochydore
    Posts
    1,576
    Blog Entries
    1

    FFXIV Character

    Alayna Mae (Sargatanas)

    Default

    I use italics with no quotation marks as a general rule for thoughts. Imo consistency is less important than clarity in that area - if the styling is a little different but I still know that the character is thinking, then that's fine by me. But if it's decided there needs to be a general rule, I'll try to adhere to it.

    My future is fuelled by the fires of words, wit and companionship.

  11. #41
    Eggstreme Wheelie Recognized Member Jiro's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2004
    Posts
    26,942
    Articles
    65
    Blog Entries
    1
    Contributions
    • Former Cid's Knight
    • Former Editor
    • Notable contributions to former community wiki

    Default

    There are about six different ways to represent thoughts that are standard. Italics and no punctuation is probably the most common and it seems like everybody here does that already, so that would be the best way. Keep in mind that it might still be worth including attribution; because this is written in third person, and not first person, you want to attribute nearly everything so nobody confuses who is talking or thinking.

    They see me rolling. They hating, patrolling.
    Trying to catch me riding dirty.


  12. #42

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
    I'm actually trying to add line breaks to some posts right now, I hope nobody minds. Although there are some sentences so long that they could be an entire paragraph on their own...
    Quote Originally Posted by Sephiroth
    To focus on one person that was excited was no use here as there were enough surrounding them and of which he couldn't totally avoid to deceive that were enough to put down the scale to a depressing negativity so it was better to use his empathy skills by focussing on a mass of people at once with their mixed feelings and holding the balance as well this way.
    It may be worth going over that part and re-writing it a bit, because it confused the hell out of me. >_>;
    If you were a super-computer you could read it. However the sentence was confusing anyway because I accidentally wrote "deceive" instead of perceive.

    I changed the part.

  13. #43
    Not responsible for WWI Citizen Bleys's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2000
    Location
    The Wired
    Posts
    8,502
    Articles
    7
    Blog Entries
    60

    FFXIV Character

    Bleys Maynard (Sargatanas)
    Contributions
    • Former Administrator
    • Former Cid's Knight

    Default

    I'll have Dez in Lucrecia soon, I just needed a bit more character development before he's ready to interact with any player characters.

    He's going to hate the smurf out of one of you, by the way.

  14. #44
    'Just Friends' Formalhaut's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2007
    Location
    Glenwood
    Posts
    13,325
    Articles
    54
    Blog Entries
    5

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys View Post
    I'll have Dez in Lucrecia soon, I just needed a bit more character development before he's ready to interact with any player characters.

    He's going to hate the smurf out of one of you, by the way.
    I hope it isn't Locke


  15. #45
    Not responsible for WWI Citizen Bleys's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2000
    Location
    The Wired
    Posts
    8,502
    Articles
    7
    Blog Entries
    60

    FFXIV Character

    Bleys Maynard (Sargatanas)
    Contributions
    • Former Administrator
    • Former Cid's Knight

    Default

    @Locky: Since your character is coming from Earth, and you haven't written your transition in, I just thought I'd throw this out there:

    The odour of toothpaste makes bears horny. We have bear people on Sedorra. The jokes write themselves.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •