For each excerpt, determine whether it sets the location, time, or mood in a story. Now it was no easy task to find a rose, for it was the middle of winter. (the Brothers Grimm, "Lily and the Lion") By the side of a wood, in a country a long way off, ran a fine stream of water; and upon the stream there stood a mill. (the Brothers Grimm, "Rumpelstiltskin") They journeyed on till it began to be dusky, and then the little man said, "Let me get down, I'm tired." (the Brothers Grimm, "Tom Thumb") Soon after, the goblin was waked in the middle of the night by a terrible noise and knocking against the window shutters and the house doors and by the sound of the watchman's horn. A great fire had broken out, and the whole street seemed full of flames. (Hans Christian Andersen, "The Goblin and the Huckster") By a great forest dwelt a poor woodcutter with his wife and his two children. (the Brothers Grimm, "Han

a) madame podtochina used witchcraft to make it disappear.

i’m writing a memoir and i’ve been given the great suggestion of placing a ‘sub-narrative’ within some of the chapters – sort of, what was going on with me in the grand scheme of things.

i was wondering how to format this so that it is very obvious we are stepping out the of story.

firstly is a change in font from serif to sans workable? i also use dashes for a scene change. was thinking of using a different scene-changer too.

here’s a (shortened) example:

university – or what’s known as ‘uni’ in australia – were some of the best days of my life. where else do you get to potter around in a great location, have very little responsibility, learn lots of things, do lots of things and walk out four years later with a bonus – a degree!

with my university years i had immersed myself into community of intelligent ambitious people. generally everyone had a confidence about themselves. they knew where they were going in life and weren’t threatened by others.

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next normal paragraph continues here…

(sorry couldn’t show the fonts in this comment field)

too much?