Things are going great! I had this big problem with how I was going to introduce the letter exchange system between my protagonists because it was messy, with all these section breaks that I hear don't work well in kindle, too much repetition (like their addresses), it just didn't read right. Now it does...
Here's how I did it:
Transcript of the letters between:
—(Character's Name). (Address)
—(Character's Name). (Address)
(I put this at the beginning of the chapter)
Then before each letter, in bold:
(Character's Name)—
Voilá!
And at the first few letters I make clear who the character's writing.
This is the best system I've found... I researched all over the internet and no other system worked for my story.
Now, reading the chapters months after writing them, I've also cringed hard over some stuff, but oh well, I have enough time until September to fix them up. <3
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: MASH (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce & Daniel Pierce, Hawkeye and the 4077 Characters: Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, Daniel Pierce (MASH) Additional Tags: Poetry, Epistolary, Episode: s01e12 Dear Dad, Episode: s01e18 Dear Dad...Again, Episode: s02e09 Dear Dad... Three, War, Post-War, Episode: s11e16 Goodbye Farewell and Amen, Crabapple Cove, Letters, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Trauma, Basically it's an epistolary poem from Hawkeye to his dad I don't know what else to say Summary:
Dear Dad,
I am finally going to the after life and Charon’s ferry moves so fast that my heart doesn’t have the time to leap out of my chest and into the ocean below me. No one told me the flight would be so lonely. I have not been alone since the moment I was born. I cannot wait to see you again.
Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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summary:
On the dawn of April 2, 5747, Asagiri Gen leaves the Kingdom of Science to travel the world. Or so he says. Running away from a broken heart just seemed too poetic for a calculating mentalist.
Five years later, Ishigami Senku follows the trail he left behind because he isn't afraid to chase after what he wants.
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Asagiri Gen could not quite let go of his greatest love, so he writes him letters he will never send instead. Ishigami Senku isn't perfect, trial-and-error is of course the theme of science, but that doesn't mean he won't try to fix his mistakes.
"I have made my own sacrifice because of my family trying to protect their blood in much the same way"
If I may ask you to elaborate on that headcanon?..
An excerpt from the diary of Enoch Drebber:
I find that my arm has started to give off a foul smell. It would appear that my injuries had not healed enough when I found my way onto this boat, and now infection has sunk in. I fear I may lose more than a few fingers this time, though had I waited another few days, I doubt I would have ever made it out of Utah again.
The only reason I made it out of there without my father was, I believe, was that wronged man, Jefferson. Had he not shown up in Cincinnati as he had, my father would have had me in chains. And then in a cart, and then in a ring, and stuck on a farm. I still can hardly believe I made it out of there with my life.
I am surrounded by animals and their dung, which is not the place to nurse a wound, but it was all I could afford. If someone happens to check down here, I would not be surprised if I am thrown seaward, doomed to freeze or drown. That is, if I can survive the loss of my hand, my eye, the lack of food or warm, and the horrific thoughts within my own head.
I have lost track of the days, I know not if I sleep through them, I hope only that I can find my way to London, and to school within it.
Fearfully, E