For those taking the Fan Fiction Test - Question Disqualified *G*

[catscradle]

Okay, I've been told by DaMoyre that the question "To denote the thoughts of a character, the only acceptable method is:" is unfair. Since posting to lists requires ascii characters only, one cannot use italics (which was the correct answer in the quiz). I still maintain that you don't need italics or symbols to write - he/she/it thought, - but that's just me. So if you missed that question - consider it correct and adjust your score accordingly.

babs, that ought to help you =)

Yoiko. . . well, I write them with love too - but that's not the right answer ;)

*HUGS*

Comments

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

Well * was always used to indicate something you'd like to put in bold or italics but couldn't because of ascii format. So if you were going to use the "thoughts are in italics" concept then using * to replace that in ascii is okay. In fact some automatic archives look for the *s to automatically convert them to italics for the HTML.

But yeah, beyond that you can do blah blah blah, he thought. You don't have to reinvent the wheel.

Other problems with non-ASCII characters...

[damoyre.livejournal.com]

While we're on the subject of "italics" and the characters used to replace them, I thought I'd bring this up again.