Hi all.
I'm crazy enough to decide that it's time for me to come back to writing, or at least to die trying to do it (it would be the first time in English, as my native language is Italian), and I'm putting together a project for a series of Fan-Fiction.
It's all very in the preliminary stage, but since it's Star Trek, it will have some "special" requirements in terms of styling, and being the control freak I tend to be, I want to lay down some basic rules for myself about that from this very early stage and I'd like your opinion on it
One of my main concern is about dialogues.
Let's say I'll use the standard " " to enclose a normal dialogue. What about a communication one? Like something coming from off-ship through a comm badge, with one of the characters not present? I am used to something like this in the SIM I play in:
"Dialogue 1, character is present."
[[Answer, patched through comm-badge of communication link, voice only.]]
Do you think it would work as a style rule in a more "novel" type of text (than a SIM post)?
Also, what about the computer? Having it speaking as a "present character" doesn't seem completely the right approach, but I cannot decide on the delimitation signs to use: «», ** **, or something like this? Ideas?
I bet someone has already scratched this itch before me, any link/idea/answer will be appreciated, because I see that every author has different ideas on how to implement all of this.
Thanks.
I'm crazy enough to decide that it's time for me to come back to writing, or at least to die trying to do it (it would be the first time in English, as my native language is Italian), and I'm putting together a project for a series of Fan-Fiction.
It's all very in the preliminary stage, but since it's Star Trek, it will have some "special" requirements in terms of styling, and being the control freak I tend to be, I want to lay down some basic rules for myself about that from this very early stage and I'd like your opinion on it

One of my main concern is about dialogues.
Let's say I'll use the standard " " to enclose a normal dialogue. What about a communication one? Like something coming from off-ship through a comm badge, with one of the characters not present? I am used to something like this in the SIM I play in:
"Dialogue 1, character is present."
[[Answer, patched through comm-badge of communication link, voice only.]]
Do you think it would work as a style rule in a more "novel" type of text (than a SIM post)?
Also, what about the computer? Having it speaking as a "present character" doesn't seem completely the right approach, but I cannot decide on the delimitation signs to use: «», ** **, or something like this? Ideas?
I bet someone has already scratched this itch before me, any link/idea/answer will be appreciated, because I see that every author has different ideas on how to implement all of this.
Thanks.