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...
As I'm writing my novel, I'm writing individual scenes for it (since I downloaded scrivener with the free trial). I realize that in a lot of them...
I've had a hard time choosing one method (dialogue or narration) as being the better way to drive plot over the other, so I thought I'd seek out...
I am moving this to a another forum, Novels. for critique.
Does anybody know how to punctuate when another character finishes another character's sentence? I know when a character continues speaking after...
Hello, I hope this is the right place to ask. I recently have to write a story about some young girls living in 1979 London, and being a...
I wasn't a hundred percent sure where to put this so I presume it would be a safe bet to post it in setting development. My question being: do you...
So this is the second day of "yes, it sounds awful; write it and work on it later" writing, and I'm realizing that the "sounds awful" scenes that...
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