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Envylope reacted to BearlyAlive's post in the thread Writing How important are dialogue tags in your fiction? with
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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...
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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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Envylope replied to the thread Writing How important are dialogue tags in your fiction?."As long as you don't use chortle!" BearlyAlive ejaculated. "Everything else could work."
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Envylope reacted to BearlyAlive's post in the thread Writing How important are dialogue tags in your fiction? with Haha.
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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Envylope replied to the thread Writing How important are dialogue tags in your fiction?.I like this example from a YouTube video I watched about a bad magician who is speaking to an audience. "For my next trick," the...
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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 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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Envylope replied to the thread Writing How important are dialogue tags in your fiction?.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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What...? This cant be! What is the point of life now? It as if the sun has lost its warm embrace, the wind its gentle touch, the earth...
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Me to almost every single genius protagonist story.
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Ask and you shall receive.