If you put in endnotes, I'll read them. I won't like them, me, but I'll read them. I've always felt that endnotes were a horror because that number... that little number... tantalizing and teasing... will pull me out of the narrative and make me flip through the book and maybe lose the thread of the story. Fiction that's footnoted is inherently distracting (which can be both good and fun, I think), so why not integrate these secondary narratives into more of a visual patchwork by putting them on the page? I like the idea of watching your narratives brawling on the page, instead of being forced into separate compartments.
Here's another possibility to consider: non-notes at the end of each chapter, a la the "selected reading" that some scholars stick at the end of textbook or monograph chapters.
If you endnote, is there any chance you'd simply put page & line numbers in the notes, and leave endnote numbers out of the text itself?
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Date: 2008-04-18 05:03 pm (UTC)Here's another possibility to consider: non-notes at the end of each chapter, a la the "selected reading" that some scholars stick at the end of textbook or monograph chapters.
If you endnote, is there any chance you'd simply put page & line numbers in the notes, and leave endnote numbers out of the text itself?
I hope all that helped, or at least, didn't hurt.