In a message dated 1/5/99 9:32:53 PM !!!First Boot!!!, wyrm@mail.utexas.edu
writes:

<< 
    " "   spoken
    ' '   quoted
    * *   sound
   ({ })  flatulance
  >>

okay... I count to about ten before someone nominates this thread to be
banned. Anywho...  I haven't seen anyone write their fanfics as if they were
writing plays. I think the above would fit for playwright styled fics, and I
doubt they use those in MLA style writings. Since we are on this matter of
style, what style do the FFML rather see? MLA? Chicago? or whatever style
there be....