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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
I think one way to deal with the issue is to include a short explanation of the use punctuation at the beginning of the book. That way, the reader will have an indication of what the author intended and it can also avoid confusion when using non-standard punctuation.
As an example, in stories I've written I've used [ and ] to surround text that indicates a character's thoughts, using them just like quote marks for text spoken by a character. At the beginning of the story I included a short statement indicating what [ and ] means, and also what other formatting/punctuation choices mean (such as Courier New for text that appears on a screen within the story).
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If I saw an explanation of punctuation or fonts at the beginning of a book, my first impulse would be to close that book and go on to something else.
I am curious why you use square brackets when the conventional way to indicate direct thoughts is italics.