Seeking opinions on something for TPBT · 10:25pm Aug 24th, 2018
Howdy howdy~
Hi everyone! As evident with the tagged story, this quick blog post is about The Poisoned Barb's Tale! They'll be no spoilers here, so no worries there if you're just stopping by to say hi ^_^
So then, I'm in the middle of writing Entry 3, Part 2 (Yes I know I just released the ending of Entry 2. Please have some patience, the next three chapters will come out in a single week again just like last time 
), and a thought occurred to me. Since I started writing again, I've been using a pretty generic scene transition break that looks like this:
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... And that has been all fine and good so far. It was all I used in the first book to indicate when we were switching from reading Barb's book to the real world.
Something that came to my attention with the recent chapter, though, is that my original plan of book two being about how Barb turned her journal into a diary didn't take into account that, since each chapter is going to now start in the book with a ~Dear Diary~ section before transition into a first person retelling... I'm going to be using the same sort of transitions for jumps into flashbacks AND into normal scene changes!
That might be confusing, and is going to limit me if I ever want to suddenly jump back into the book for something, to highlight future Barb's thoughts versus past Barb's.
I think I want to start using some different page breaks now, to indicate when we are either leaving or entering the book, and then the generic one for flashbacks and what have you. I'm not going to be putting a massive amount of effort into going back and changing all the prior chapters, and the entire first book, just was something so minor... But I just wanted to hear your thoughts. Feel free to make some suggestions on what would be appropriate as well! I want this story to be as non-confusing as possible 
Talk to you later!
-Derply
try
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or
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or
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or the clasic
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Maybe have the flashback text be like this ?
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I think that helped during this last chapter, where there was an actual flashback, but I'm thinking about how like in the first book there were parts where like Solaris was reading over Barb's shoulder, and we switched back and forth between the book and what was happening while Barb was writing it. I'm just thinking about when I want to have the book AND multiple scenes in the present how confusing that will be.
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The classics a classic for sure!
there is the double line:
̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿
there are also the zigzaging dots:
⋰⋱⋰⋱⋰⋱⋰⋱⋰⋱⋰⋱⋰⋱⋰⋱⋰⋱⋰⋱⋰⋱⋰⋱⋰⋱⋰⋱⋰⋱⋰⋱⋰⋱
the squere:
╔════════════════════════════╗
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the write-in squere:
╔════════════════════════════╗
╟───────── ExampleText ──────────╢
╚════════════════════════════╝
hills:
▁▂▃▅▆▇▆▅▃▂▁▂▃▅▆▇▆▅▃▂▁▂▃▅▆▇▆▅▃▂▁▂▃▅▆▇▆▅▃▂▁
wave:
¸¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸¸.·´¯`·.¸
inter-changing (aka chain):
═─═─═─═─═─═─═─═─═─═─═─═─═─═─
dots:
░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░
try to experiment with ascii.
Lots of way to do sequence breaks. Some you don't even need the physical marker on the pgae for.
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I like that chain! I'll shop around a bit, but that one sort of reminds be of a binder's spiral hole thingy so it might fit the theme. Thanks!
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than perhaps this will be more for your liking:
➰➰➰➰➰➰➰➰➰➰➰➰➰➰➰➰➰➰➰➰➰
or mabey a variant of these (wich are simpler, if a little boring):
⌒⌒⌒⌒⌒⌒⌒⌒⌒⌒⌒⌒⌒⌒⌒⌒⌒⌒⌒⌒⌒⌒
⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜⏜
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Thanks again! I think I'll for sure use the simpler option as it's... simple!