Character Thoughts and How to Show Them
Why It’s Important In Fiction Writing
Character thoughts for fiction stories.
At some point, we all know you’ll have to write about what your characters are thinking.
You might not know how to write those thoughts clearly and without disrupting the flow of your story.
Writing Character Thoughts
First, how do you usually write their direct thoughts? Italics? Bold? Quotation marks? Some other fashion? Most likely, your answer is yes to at least one of these.
Well, italics are the general default for relaying character monologues. You see them everywhere, whether the book is self-published or traditionally published.
While there’s nothing wrong with using them, if used to express your M.C.’s thoughts, italics can pull you from the flow of the story. And as an avid reader, I can express how annoying that is.
But what if I said there was a less jarring way to do it?
Happy to say there is.
