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: Explicit language in YA fiction I'm writing a YA novel where most of the characters are in their teens or early 20's. One of my characters has some "colorful" language in certain situations,
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: Using non-say dialogue tags Since I took up writing as a hobby, I've learnt that it's recommended to only use "say" and "ask" as dialogue tags, and to skip even these if
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: Using minimal amount of dialogue to introduce two characters but still move the story along I have always struggled with writing dialogue between my characters in my historical fiction novel.
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: How to write natural-sounding dialogue? Writing dialogue for my novel has proved to be more of a challenge than I anticipated. It all seems clunky and unnatural. Any tips for writing natural
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: Developing Voice for a Third Person Narrator and Multiple Characters I'm currently working on what I hope to be a near final draft of my first ever novel. Something I've struggled with through
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: How to get across to the reader a character’s prophetic abilities My protagonist is speaking to my interpretation of the three fates from Greek mythology. He doubts their abilities until one
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: Showing one word hesitation due to fright in dialogue I'm a children's writer and have always used, "W-Who," to a the character being scared. An example would be "W-Who's there?"
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: How should my script refer to a character who's currently disguised as another character? I've recently resumed writing a series of scripts for an anime I've been planning. One of the characters
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: Is it bad practice to use "ahem" in dialogue? I'm writing a bit of fiction and what i have is an uncomfortable character who is clearing his throat before speaking. Is it better to say so
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: What pronoun to use for a sentient, self aware AI? I have a sentient AI in a story. He sentience aspect is mostly an unexpected result and some characters in the story do not believe it.
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: All my characters sound the same. How can I change this? I am writing a fantasy series. I am a new writer. I am almost done with the first draft of the first book, I have about 400 pages.
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: Protagonist knows things which the reader doesn't know/story starts in the middle. How do I tell them? when I say "reader", in the context of my particular scenario, I actually mean
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: In dialog, what pronoun forms go before the colon? What should I write before the colon in dialogue? Subject or object? I: Do you love me? He: Yes, I do. Or Me: Do you love me? Him: Yes, I
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: How are the limits of regional vernacularism/slang should be employed in a novel that is true to the area and time? What's an acceptable amount of non-standard English that can be used to depict
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: How can you add light, quirky, humor or sarcasm into dialog? Looking back at my book, I'm realizing how flat the dialog is. I'm not known for being funny and I don't consider myself naturally
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: Will a copyeditor refine both dialogue and plot? I am a big-picture kinda guy. I have ideas and I love details, but I hate to get stuck up in the microscopic level grunt work - managing
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: Use of commas with non-dialogue-tag verbs before and after dialogue I've recently found myself second guessing a convention I've followed for a while where with a piece of dialogue, for instance:
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: How do you format dialogue within a parargraph? He made his way over to the crimson red telephone box that basked in the afternoon sunlight. Ted knew she was hiding in there. “You can come
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: How to write a character with an accent One of my characters is Russian and speaks English as a second language. I know that people with Russian accents tend to leave out words like “theâ€
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: Realistically writing culture shock for this character? I wanted help writing a character for my setting. Basically, in this story I’m writing, I have a character named Christina. Basically, she
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: A smooth way to make Dialogue I am an amateur fiction writer and a key feature in most of my pieces is dialogue. There are often 6-12 characters in the exciting scenes and a lot of the
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: How can I write complex and believable characters? How do I write characters that are more grounded, complex and believable so that readers can resonate with them and makes my novel more compelling?
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: How to create unique dialogue for characters? So, one of my problems is that I have trouble giving my characters unique voices. They usually all sound the same. I may say that they have
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: I'm writing a prologue from the POV of a non-English-speaking character. How should I write the dialogue? Picturing this in movie form would be easy. I would have the character speak their native
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: Punctuation in direct speech with multiple sentences The information I found on using punctuation marks in direct speech did not address doing so with multiple sentences. For example, I want to
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: How can I show a character's emotions through a phone call? When writing face-to-face dialogue, I like to give clues as to what the non-POV character is thinking and feeling through their actions.
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: How to make a weak character fight in major battle My character is about to fight someone that really strong but he believes that he is still weak. So how can i force him to fight. (For
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: How to write a POC explaining to a bullied child that dark skin isn't bad I'm writing a scene where the skin tone of an adult person of color (POC) is brought up in conversation. The POC
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: How do I write characters that aren't just a copy of myself? I am finding it difficult to create fictional characters with personalities that are not a copy of myself. I'm having trouble trying
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: Em-dashes and interrupting one's own dialogue within the same quote I am looking for an example of a specific dialogue interruption case. I've been putting a following space my entire life, an
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: How to show a stutter in dialogue? I have seen different ways of showing a stutter in dialogue - an em dash, just saying it was stuttered, etc. What other ways of showing a stutter are there?
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: How to improve my Dialogue Writing? This is one area of writing that I find myself struggling a lot. I usually divide my chapters into scenes and each scene has a goal(s) that I have to
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: Do you include punctuation when a character cuts off in dialogue? So I have a question concerning punctuation. Let's say that Character A is talking to Character B. Character A, like most people,
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: Looking for a better word than "Yikes" I'm trying to find the right word to use in a (serious) comic I'm writing. The character is an eighteen year old American girl, talking to some older
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: Writing mumbled speech I've got a character that mumbles, and I'd like good advice on how to write his dialogue. He isn't a POV character, and I won't give him too much dialogue that would
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: How do I write dialogue as heard by a POV character who isn't fluent in the language? So I'm writing a story during the course of which my main, first-person-POV character learns another language,
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: Screenplay dialogue tags for unintroduced characters I am writing a screenplay for a TV show in which a character who will become important later in the series has a line of dialogue in the
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: Is the punctuation of my dialogue in this novel section correct? I am just starting out my novel, if I can get this quotation punctuation correctly it'll massively help me throughout the book,
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: How can I introduce my antagonist's misdeeds and master plan to my protagonists? I'm writing a story where the antagonist is motivated by lust, and has successfully engaged in predatory behavior,
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: Italicizing dialogue punctuation I know CMOS 17 section 6.2 says, "All punctuation marks should appear in the same font—roman or italic—as the main or surrounding text, except for punctuation
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