Using Dialogue Tags and Punctuation Properly by Carolyn Kaufman on QueryTracker.net Tips for Fledgling Writers, guest post by Becca Puglisi on The Thinker All in the Details by Stina Lindenblatt on Seeing Creative I Have a Message for Ms. Reader: Are You Telegraphing Your Plot?
Not exact matches
This can be fixed by
using a
tag line at the beginning, before the first
dialogue line, or it can be inserted into the first paragraph — He rushed from his office at Pavlov's Veterinary Hospital...
For commercial fiction,
using other speech
tags draws attention to the
tag, instead of the
dialogue where you want the reader to pay attention.
I've found that having my husband read the book aloud is a great way to check for things like
dialogue tags — because if they aren't clear, he doesn't know what voice to
use!
Stop
using so many
dialogue tags!
With each new level, players are awarded a «Loot Box» containing four randomly selected rewards; these items are often in - game currency, Hero skins,
dialogue and sprays that the player can
use to «
tag» map environments (i.e. custom graffiti), «Highlight» /» Play of the Game» cinematics, or a new player - icon; duplicate items automatically exchanged for in - game currency.