I've got a scene in my book that's been giving me trouble. It's an auction scene where there's an auctioneer doing his auction voice, which I want to include for flavor. But I don't really want the reader to have to decode what's being said, so I do something like this:
“At seventy, seventy-five. seventy-five.”: Apparently, the inspector had bowed out.
which breaks down into:
"What the auctioneer said.": What that means for the auction.
But I'm afraid the reader won't be able to figure this out without an explanation. Can you think of a way to make this clear?
“At seventy, seventy-five. seventy-five.”: Apparently, the inspector had bowed out.
which breaks down into:
"What the auctioneer said.": What that means for the auction.
But I'm afraid the reader won't be able to figure this out without an explanation. Can you think of a way to make this clear?
