You may also use italics without quotation marks for direct internal dialogue. Example:I lied, Charles thought,but maybe she will forgive me. Indirect internal dialogue refers to a character expressing a thought in the third person (the third person singular isheorshe, the plural isthey) and i...
1. Use dialogue tags without quotation marks. One of the most straightforward ways to write the interior monologue of your main character is to simply use dialogue tags. That means you write “he thought” or “she thought” to identify a phrase as something a character thinks to themselves....
Any suggestions? Anyone who writes fiction wrestles with the problem of how to convey a character’s inner dialogue without distracting from the flow of the story. How not to do it Setting off a character’s thoughts in quotation marks is a definite no-no. Such a technique is confusing t...