When writing, how do you emphasize a character speaking in a louder voice?
I use every means given to me--ending tags, capitals, italicisation, in moderate and measured amount, to indicate diferent levels of agitation. Usual shouting is handled by an exclamation mark, while italics are generally reserved for emphasis and caps for the heavy stuff.
How do you plan a story? Do you make an outline, etc., or does it just come to you as you write?
Eheheh, my current obsession. I'm attempting to go heavy with this particular detail, and if you can bear an impassioned evangelist rant I will explain what I hope it shall turn out to be. I plan to begin with a basic 'axiom', which is the origin of the entire fiction-universe, and I plan to branch it out into exact measured RATIONAL bases for the development of the characters. Then I intend to advance each shade of circumstance around them into a separate thread of cause and effect, so that not a single idea is arbitrary, not a single theme is disharmonious with the whole, and not one event leading to--suggesting the hint of--a plot hole. I shall have everything planned out. The actual writing process will be a simple one of chronicalization, and may (metaphorical) God forgive me if I make the slightest mistake along the way. *wipes froth from the corner of his mouth* So yes, that's my deal.
I am crazy.
And verily, the true chant to recite when an elementary pidgey causes your hind portions to sore, is a torturous poetic song of emo(tional) tragedy to the effect that now your nail is broken.
