Quote Originally Posted by Rhabbi View Post
Though I do recall seeing this type of thing set off with an additional indentation like this:
Jim settled in and began to tell his story,
blah blah blah
more blah
even more blah
I am not surwe if that is acceptable or not, but it is an alternative.
Many publishers tend to skip the additional indentation for printed books to keep the page numbers down.

Others will put the "story" within the story in italics.
For me, the italics are hard to read.

I like the idea of clearly kicking off that one character is going to be speaking for awhile.