5/8/2023 0 Comments If i should speak a novel![]() ![]() ![]() Here is an example/ little excerpt of my novel, which I already translated but kept the German Formatting. There is still one open question for me and I really hope you can help me with it: Thank you very much for this article, It helped me a lot, especially since I'm translating my German novel into English right now. The first lines of the paragraphs that follow it (2) are indented.Paragraph 1 is the first in the chapter.The following example is taken from Part 5, Chapter 2, of Christopher Priest’s Inverted World (p. ![]() The convention applies regardless of your line spacing.This is standard with narrative and dialogue.You might hear editorial folks refer to this non-indented text as full out. To mark this bigger shift in a novel, it’s conventional not to indent the first line of text in a new chapter or a new section. part of the same scene.Ĭhapters and sections are bigger shifts: perhaps the viewpoint character changes, or there's a shift in timeline or location. Indented paragraphs are related to what's come before. Connectivity: They indicate a journey.Readability: They help the reader identify the shifts visually.Paragraph indents have two purposes in fiction: Still, the prose in all those paragraphs within a section is connected. perhaps a new idea, piece of action, thought or speaker, even a moderation or acceleration of pace. Each new paragraph signifies a change or shift of some sort. ![]()
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