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3 Common Dialog Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
ByDebra 13 September, 201615 August, 2017
Crafting great dialog takes work. And today I’d like to discuss 3 mistakes I see more often than any other. Let’s look at definitions first. A dialog tag (also known as attribution) tells the reader who is speaking, but also
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Those Pesky Dialogue Tags
ByDebra 28 July, 2015
Oh those pesky dialogue tags. Said. Asked. Replied. Responded. There’s a lot of conflicting information out there on what to use. What’s a writer to do? In the multitude of manuscripts I read, I see writers employ such things as “Sally smiled” or “Gerald laughed.” In and of itself, there is nothing wrong with that….
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