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Comment by Charise Olson on May 6, 2008 at 2:33pm

Hi, Donald;
I'm taking a break from my WIP and thought I'd give your questions a go. My perspective would be that dialogue is when you have your character arguing with himself or the like and monologue would be a long single stream of thought. So I think the key word is "internal" and dialogue/monologue is semantics since its all the same character "speaking". #2The use of italics or quotation marks is really going to depend so much on your POV, number of characters and story. I think quotation marks is confusing because does that mean they are speaking aloud or what? Too much internal stuff could be risky (again depending on a lot of factors). I think you can try little identifiers (gestures and scene setting) to make sure readers know which character is which. For a manuscript italics is pretty standard. If something else should or shouldn't be used I think the editors will make that call when its going to be published. My WIP is first person so I am not using italics for her internal stuff because I could end up with a very "yucky" manuscript.