TV Tropes refers to "As You Know" exposition as information shoehorned into dialogue for the audiences' benefit, even though characters talking...
Robert McKee, in his book Dialogue, asserts that subtextual dialogue is idiosyncratic of realistic, mimetic genres of storytelling, as opposed to...
Hi, everyone. I'm struggling with finding the answer to my dialog question. Which is the correct paragraph structure for action before dialog:...
I'm writing a mystery novel, and I'm kind of using the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle as a blueprint for my writing structure. However, I've...
I'm not sure if I need to put this dialogue on a new paragraph or if it can stay on the same line as the description of the person about to speak:...
Hey all! Lately as I have been looking over some writings, I wonder about ways to not have all my characters sound exactly the same. It's...
Hi Everyone, I'm a complete beginner, trying to piece together my first book. It's taken me six weeks to reach twenty pages due to the...
(apologies if some of my posts are not in the right threads - I'm still getting the hang of the layout. I figure this is a general writing...
I'm still learning to write and tend to avoid dialogue as it always feels clunky and boring to read to me. So I've decided to write a small piece...
In terms of the length of each dialogue scene, that is. In my book "The Exclusion Zone", the story is a combination man-v-man /...
I have an inner conflict where I feel like I need to write a little bit between when character are talking. I.e. "Whattup, man," said Josh. He...
Hi, I have just signed up to this site and hope that I will be able to get some help with my writing. I am stuck on how to punctuate dialogue...
[MEDIA] Kind of a clever way at looking at story dialogue in an almost poetic fashion. Pay attention to the beats before the breaths to make the...
http://www.betternovelproject.com/blog/dialogue/ This little list is a good tool for going through your dialogue to make it sound more natural...
Hey all, I'm new here, first time poster yay! Anyway I'm writing a YA story at the moment and there is a scene where I have three characters...
Through the reading I used to do I know what a written dialogue is suppose to look like, with an indent here and a tag there. Through several...
I was just re-reading my January 2020 copy of the UK print magazine Writers' Forum (totally NOT connected with us in any way!) and came across a...
I have never been a mother. I have observed mothers, but apparently not enough to write them convincingly. I'm looking for some tips on writing...
(1) For situations where you include dialogue tags in the middle or end of dialogue, when do you use a comma after the dialogue tag when it's...
It's come to my attention that I write a lot of inline dialogue. Like, a real lot. What is your opinion on the matter?
Separate names with a comma.
