One of my characters is a Texan. I have been using different resources to try and familiarize myself with the accent and the lingo but nothing...
How should I punctuate this? “Sorry Eric. It was a different team. One not previously involved in Delta. We needed to rule out -” Dominic...
I'm writing in the POV of a mentally disabled person. She has "DID" and believes someone else is talking to her. well, I'm currently in a scene...
Ok so my MC and another character in my story are typing back and forth to each other, but the other character uses bad grammar. Would it be...
Let's say I'm writing a character who had his lips cut off so he can't really pronounce words with B, M, W, V, and to a lesser extent F, and V....
New to the forum and I'm hoping I've got the right section here... Essentially I have a question to do with dialogue which I haven't been able to...
Is it absolutely incorrect to use a semicolon in dialogue? Is there a rule that prohibits this? Joe said, "Nancy went to the movies; I went to...
I have two characters talking. Something like. "...", he said. "...", she said. (repeat 16,5 times) They are planning a romantic heist...
So I am not really sure how to have a character transition from dialogue to verbally quoting someone. Not sure if this is a normal problem or if...
Dialogue is my weakness. I write, but it never sounds like them. I know my characters, although I'm still at the begining, but it just sounds...
I've realised that I need to create a mentor/confidante character to fill in the gaps in my MC's arc. Eleanor isn't close to her own mother and I...
One of the things I struggle with the most is handling conversations with more than two characters. I can get a good cadence and flow going if...
Let's say Adam and Eve (just an example, didn't come up with something else at the moment) would talk about an apple in the 2nd person. Adam:...
Hey everyone, This might sound a little strange to be asking for, but I'm wondering if any of you are familiar with current/ more contemporary...
So I had a sample edit done, and while there were very few typos (in fact none, just false corrects like think instead of thing), one thing stood...
Hi all, I'm new to the forum so firstly a hi. My question is concerning dialogue: when I'm writing dialogue I'm aware that cliches should be...
I'm trying to denote a stutter while this person is freezing her ass off. Does this work well enough? “Hold on. I need t-t-to no-notify an...
So I'm trying to write this piece of dialogue, and I want to show the way the speaker emphasizes each separate word. The line of dialogue: "No...
So here I am with my novel written, and I'm just waiting for the last two beta readers to finish with it before I get my act together and...
In my fanfic, most of the characters are 15-16, except for a couple of seniors. I think I got the teen characteristics right, you know, the...
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