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...
Hi All, I'm looking for some insight. I'm finding it difficult deciding on how to incorporate dialogue within the retelling of events within a...
In Russian writing tradition, it's considered to be a "bad taste" if you start directly with character speech. The most logically based argument...
Is it considered plagiarism if I am writing a fiction piece in creative writing for university, in which it is a story where the lines of a...
Currently writing my first story to feature a text message conversation in it, and it got me thinking about how on earth one is supposed to...
I have a question about dialogue. I have a character who bounces back and forth from English to Italian when she gets flustered. How do I have the...
So I'm in a draft stage, not going to work on much revision at the moment. I fell into a trap where a project was caught up in a loop of revision...
In the story I'm currently working on, I have two first person narrators who are both very much interested in the people around them. This said,...
So I have a question about a story I'm writing. In this story, one character is telling another character a story. The way I understand it, the...
I've seen tons of people within the past few years refer to a conversation between two characters as "dialog." And I'm wondering if we're...
Hi! This may seem simple, but I'm just seeking some clarity on when I should start a new line in dialogue. Here's an example: “If there was...
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