I am writing a story in the past tense and am adding a conversation that happened in the past. When writing the dialogue would I write the tags...
I am writing my first novel and am having some difficulties. For starters, the MC, Basil, has been through a lot of mental trauma and I want to...
I want some general tips for a good dialogue, I want to keep the reader engaged in the story. I need to strengthen my dialogue-writing skills and...
Fantasy author here, as if that weren't apparent by the title question. Got a dragon who talks directly into his Rider's head, telepathically....
I'm currently working through my first edit and I feel like I'm getting somewhere, pushing the creases out of the text to make it a smooth flowing...
My current project has child characters that play an important part in the story. I never had any children characters in important positions...
i see a lot of dialogue has a comma in it, e.g “I am going to the zoo,” said Martha. im curious, whats the comma for?
I'm currently working on a scene where one of my characters is throwing out ideas for what hashtag to use on a picture she's about to post to...
Hello everyone! I just registered several seconds ago because I've been having a problem with a novelette I'm working on. My story is...
When you write a dialogue do you wait a second to think "Mh, how would he say that here?" or just write without thinking about it too much and...
I'm not sure if this is the right section for this, but it didn't seem to fit perfectly anywhere else. Anyway, I've got a scene that is very...
I’m writing a story, and two of the main characters are a 17-year old girl and her young mother, both Filipino immigrants. Some background: both...
I'd say for me it's an exact balance between detail, dialogue, and inner thoughts. What about everyone else here? Sometimes I read other books...
When, after someone has finished speaking, do you go to a new paragraph? If they perform an action after speaking does it stay on the same line?...
Seriously this is some strange elixer recipe to me. I feel there are times where I'm overly reliant on dialogue to convey portions of the...
Hi all, So I've noticed that when I start writing dialogue for characters, my mind draws a blank and what I eventually put on the page is a...
I've read multiple stories where they use them in dialogue. The first time I just thought it was a weird mess up, but I've now seen it happen in...
What is your opinion about breaking up dialogue with several sentences of action within the same paragraph? Personally, I think it can work fine...
This is something I've wondered about in more than one fashion. I've been writing for some time, but I've never gone to college or taken any...
Separate names with a comma.
