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Dialog

Readers must be able to both hear and see your dialog. Your character’s conversations should be concentrated, and dramatically moving with each character displaying a unique voice.

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7 Great Ways to Use Dialog in Storytelling

Using dialog in storytelling skyrockets your writing to the next level. Here are 7 ways to use dialog. 1. Explain story 2. Relate backstory 3. Add tension 4. Establish relationships 5. Show personality 6. Reveal setting 7. Foreshadow events. Includes examples.

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78 Words Instead of Ask for Significantly Better Dialog tags

Using other words instead of ask can help you add emotion to your dialog. A stronger dialog tag will improve your writing.

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50 Words to Avoid Using Instead of Said and 240 Powerful Synonyms

Yes, there really are 50 words writers use all the time instead of said. Words that should never be used to replace said. This common mistake by new writers, need…

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Powerful Arguments to Supercharge Your Story

Powerful ArgumentsAdd Vitality to Both YourStory and Characters Using verbal conflicts will increase the tension in your story. Tension grips your readers, and keeps your them glued to your pages,…

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Dialog Mistake #1 (How To Fix It)

The Most CommonDialogue Mistake When we first started writing novels, we often made this dialogue mistake . It seems there are verbs you should never use to replace said in your dialogue…

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The Most Common

Dialogue Mistake 

When we first started writing novels, we often made this dialogue mistake .

It seems there are verbs you should never use to replace said in your dialogue tags (also called attributions or speech tags)

I wish someone had showed this to us before we had written our first book. We had to go back and fix much of our dialogue.

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