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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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