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Okay, I hope this is in the right place (and if it's been mentioned before I can't find it so sorry if it has).
I don't know if there are any 'rules' about it, and the books I've read all do it differently, but what is the best way to put "text speak" into a story? As in, there is a section where two characters are 'texting' each other, how is it best to represent this?
I've been going with a new paragraph, italics, and written a little in actual text speak (so no formal grammar rules), like this:
Hey John meet me at 11 at the coffee shop. Got something to tell u.
Or would you put it into quotation marks? Or not put into italics (One book I read put the MC texts in normal font, but the replies in italics--they've also off-set the replies to mimic actual texting and how it appears on a screen. Thoughts.
I don't know if there are any 'rules' about it, and the books I've read all do it differently, but what is the best way to put "text speak" into a story? As in, there is a section where two characters are 'texting' each other, how is it best to represent this?
I've been going with a new paragraph, italics, and written a little in actual text speak (so no formal grammar rules), like this:
Hey John meet me at 11 at the coffee shop. Got something to tell u.
Or would you put it into quotation marks? Or not put into italics (One book I read put the MC texts in normal font, but the replies in italics--they've also off-set the replies to mimic actual texting and how it appears on a screen. Thoughts.