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2) LAY-OUT : anything that is NOT your characters speech, put it in italics. Anything that is SAID by your character, put it between parenthis and "in bold"
special remarks : when you are storytelling something that your character is thinking, you can use single parenthis (lucius cornelius was walking and thought to himself: '[flower] i need to get laid. Where's are my slaves!' He then walked against a cart unloading amphoras).
actually, the 'bold' part is commonly ignored; I just dump whatever my character says inside inverted commas, and use bold to make it a bold statement. but I find myself using Italics less though.