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I actually recommend often using said over any alternatives, unless it's expressing an emotion or action important to the scene. I use... -
Eldoria replied to the thread Writing How important are dialogue tags in your fiction?.I mentioned earlier in this thread the use of dialogue tags as a practical tool for character navigation in web novel chapters. We can't...
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The reader is also human, and a wall of text can be blinding. Hence a sprinkle of the name of the character maybe doing something, or an...
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"As long as you don't use chortle!" BearlyAlive ejaculated. "Everything else could work."
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As long as you don't use "chortle" everything else is forgivable. Everything has a place it could work. Unless you use "ejaculate" as...
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Finally over Covid. Back to my usual self, and diving full-speed into the writing. I should have Chapter 3 of Aestelle Nocte released by...
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From 'Elements of Style, Fourth Edition': “ Dialogue is a total loss unless you indicate who the speaker is. In long dialogue passages...
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I like dialogue tags, and I use them in tandem with action beats. I made a thread to show how I use them before. It is very simplified...
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Usually, I try to set the format of the story up in a way that it's obvious who's speaking without. When I do that, I forego tags...
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Make peace more profitable than war and it will happen.
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Hell can turn cold and Hel can burst into flames before that happen.
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I try to keep it simple, I use said, unless they really did shout or yell or something. It's better to bridge the dialogue with an...
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I started associating dialogues with an action, like-- By now his master stood in front of the table with a glass bottle of blood ale in...