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SpookMeister 🚫

In the story I'm working on, I have a character that interacts with a voice in his head. While I've been writing the story I wanted a visible cue to differentiate the speaker so I adopted wrapping words from the voice with asterisks and then when my character speaks to the entity I began using two asterisks.

I realize it's unusual, but it made sense to me at the time.

I'll try to demonstrate it here in a quote block in the hopes that it wont get mangled by markup or markdown or whatever.

Bob is walking down the street.

*Hey buddy can you hear me?*

Bob looks around nervously and says, "Who's that? Where are you?"

*Call me Jack, and you don't need to speak out loud, just think back to me.*

Bob is doubtful, but tries it anyway.

**Can you hear this?**

*Yes, thanks for answering me. You wouldn't believe how often the people I speak to just run away screaming.*

Bob gives that some thought and replies, **Well Jack, I guess I can understand that**

Looking at the "Text Formatting Guide" this isn't going to work as-is for me to upload the story. So I'm looking for suggestions on a better way to handle the idea.

awnlee jawking 🚫

@SpookMeister

A couple of forum topics that might help:

How do you denote telepathy

How to Delimit Telepathic Communication when Writing in Plain Text

AJ

Switch Blayde 🚫

@SpookMeister

Looking at the "Text Formatting Guide"

If you weren't using text, you'd put the non-verbal dialogue in italics. Both his and the other voice. You can't italicize in text, but why do you need a * and a **? Why not use the same convention with both and use dialogue tags when not clear who it is?

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