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well how do i show in my short stories that someone was interrupted when they were speaking by another person or an event and how do you show that a person was trying to change the subject to avoid the one he was in ?what is the correct way to show this please give and example and if you know any great free sites for editing and rules for writing feel free to add them or good and bad examples of showing the ways to write and how not to write and explaining each rule as well as giving what you know?

2006-12-16 03:31:29 · 3 answers · asked by ertw t 2 in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

3 answers

Okee. Someone being inturrupted.

"But I wanted to know if you were--"
"Forget about it!" inturrupted Marcy.

Something like that.

And to change the subject add it in the quotations so the character is speaking it. Just write exactly what you want to say, ex: "I like how the orange cheese tastes, but enough about that. What do you think of the weather?"

Or you could also just write that one of the characters was growing tired/bored of the conversation they are having. Ex: Alice droned on and on, all Marcy wanted to do was change the subject.

THEN you could incooperate the inturrupting, showing Marcy inturrupting Alice.

Ex: "And he was all, oh no you--" Alice went on and on. All Marcy wanted to do was change the subject.
"So anyway, what about them dodgers?" She inturrupted.

Well it doesn't really matter, just write it out and then once you re-read it you will be able to see if it sounds bad or not.

2006-12-16 03:52:50 · answer #1 · answered by . 4 · 3 0

"I'm not really sure how--" brucie began, but hank interupted. Hank suffered. He couldn't follow more than a few words.

2006-12-17 01:23:14 · answer #2 · answered by 670000000mph 2 · 0 0

its rude to interrupt

2006-12-16 12:46:15 · answer #3 · answered by Rosie 2 · 0 0

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