So I have at the moment a system, not a great one but it is kind of working for now. Where I use regular double quotes for dialogue, but I'm also using single quotes to denote words that need special emphasis.
Right now words in single quotes are 'stressed'. So far their use implies literal and occasionally figurative meaning. I do plan on going back and making some sort of effort to have a variety of notations including italics for terms that are stressed in some way, but right now I'm just blanket putting singles in, in places where I need to go back and put emphasis on something or another.
Do any other writers have some sort of internal notation system that they use to show where things need extra attention? I do also use the comment system in LO fairly extensively so when there's something which requires a little more explanation there's a short note, maybe a paragraph to myself as a reference or reminder.
I really need to pull my finger out and put down some words as it's like four months since I've written much of anything. There's been more drama in my life than I care for and my machine has developed a reasonably serious instability quirk. It might reboot three or four times inside of two hours or maybe run fine for a few weeks with no sign that there's anything wrong. The problem is definitely hardware as it just re-boots, no logs nothing just a hard crash and back at desktop in about 30-40 seconds with no indication why it fell over.
Right now my money is on the power system/supply as there is no real pattern to anything. It can crash when the system is running at 100% or just as easily at 1%. need to pull apart of few 'old' rigs to find a 'control' PSU to eliminate that as a cause. Further testing would be RAM then CPU then Motherboard. The first two are easy. A new main board will require some Google-Fu to track down a suitable replacement and of course funds with which to purchase said board. I can swap in or out other RAM/CPU from spare parts but I don't really have any extra boards just laying around with nothing to do. Funds are as always 'tight' due to more going out than coming in in general but I hope I can find something to help with that quandary soon.
But aside from life kicking me whilst I'm down, I really have few reasons as to why I've not written besides lack of mental 'resources' at the right time of day to put down the words I need to write. In the mean time I've been thinking about the need for some 'system' to annotate the present working draft. I've been in a bit of a dry patch re: an editor or two and perhaps I should be more vigorous pursuing help but with little progress being made at the keyboard I've put this project down for a while in order to leave me a little more time for other demands on my time. I've not even read anything in over a month with everything going on. We'll see if next month changes anything.
But I've derailed my post enough. Besides italic and bold, what hints could be used to push the readers mental buttons to pay attention to the odd word or phrase that needs a little more thought?
