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Writing - Onomatopoeias in Dialogue

Name: Anonymous 2005-10-03 22:33

How would you format onomatopoeias - the sounds, i.e.THUD - into the middle of a dialogue, specifically one person's, or midline.

Would you:

1)keep it inside the quotes
2)give it it's own paragraph
3)stop the quotations around it

Serious help is appreciated.

Name: Anonymous 2005-10-04 2:52

2nd option

Name: Anonymous 2005-10-05 9:01

depends on the specific situation

Name: Anonymous 2005-10-05 21:13

Harold slogged out of the tub with a certain charming amount of lethargy only to be rewarded with a curious sliding sensation between his buttocks...

~ssssssssssssplortch~

"Oh my...  I seem to have prolapsed..."

Name: Anonymous 2005-10-06 12:29

Perhaps like this:

Harold slogged out of the tub with a certain charming amount of lethargy only to be rewarded with a curious sliding sensation between his buttocks and a splortch to accompany it.
"Oh my...  I seem to have prolapsed..."

Something like that if you want it in official/formal english. Personally I think the way you've done it is fine.

Name: Anonymous 2005-11-22 15:39

>>4
A prime example of what never to do under any circumstances.

Don't change these.
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