Posts Tagged ‘ dialogue attributions ’

The Dialogue Police

April 8, 2011
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Dialogue. It is a necessary evil if you have characters. They must communicate, after all. Someone has to talk. It is also some of the most challenging writing you’ll do. Why? Because you need to know your characters enough to speak for them. As them. Use their vocabularies, not yours. Reflect their histories and...

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Dialogue Tags

March 22, 2011
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What are dialogue tags? They are the little he saids, she saids of the literary world. While many of us learned in school to vary our dialogue tags so we don’t just use ‘said’ all the time, the fact is, if you can’t substitute the tag you have now with ‘said’ and still understand...

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