[Stylist] How to write diary entries for a piece

Vejas Vasiliauskas alpineimagination at gmail.com
Sat Feb 8 06:56:53 UTC 2020


Thank you so much for all your answers. It's in the very beginning stage, but I'll take everything you all said into account. 
Vejas 

> On 7 Feb 2020, at 17:18, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> It depends. Since this is a creative prose piece, I would only include dates if it's important to the narrative. If not, it's unnecessary information.
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> Bridgit
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> Along with what Chris said, I'd start the entries off with a date since that's usually what diary keepers do. I don't know how others do it but I used to write the date and then put a dash and then the entry.  
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> Barbara Hammel
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>> On Feb 7, 2020, at 15:17, Vejas Vasiliauskas via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> Hi, 
>> I hope you are all doing well. 
>> For one of my creative writing classes, I'm writing a story in which the main character discovers another character's diary, and learns more about that person through the diary. 
>> Since the diary is by someone other than my main character, do the entries need to be quoted, or underlined? 
>> Thanks, 
>> Vejas   
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