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 #WritersCoffeeClub 4: How do you write the time? In text or numbers? Both? Why?

Goddamn, this is a hard one and I go back and forth on it!

Short answer is I do whatever I think will be least disruptive to the reader in context while staying consistent.

This tends to mean numbers in description and words in dialogue, but it really depends on context and how cumbersome writing out the words would be to read. If the way a character says the time is causing an issue, I recast it.