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Stream of consciousness writing
Full disclosure: I am not an author; in fact I doubt that I could write a story to save my life. But I do read this forum regularly to get an idea how authors work to help with with my interest in preparing ebooks for authors.
One of the authors I'm working with uses what she calls 'stream of consciousness' writing from time to time in her novel. I think this means times when the reader of her novel is to be made aware of the protagonist's thoughts.
My questions are:
- Is there a standard way in which these sections should be formatted to distinguish them from discussion or talking out loud or ordinary speech? If so, what is this way? The author just wants me to make the paragraphs containing 'stream of consciousness' speech flush left rather than indented, and I don't think this is working. I don't think this enough.
- Can anyone refer me to a book (preferably Public Domain) which has a fair amount of 'stream of consciousness' writing so I can see how other authors and ebook designers have done it? I vaguely remember that Ulysses by James Joyce is said to have 'stream of consciousness' writing; would this be a good example?
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