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: How would I write a squeal? I've seen answers that are just AHHHH! or AAAHHHHH! if the character is frightened, but what if the character is excited? I've also seen people put an exaggerated
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: How to write a character with a bipolar personality? I need some help. I am already deep into 2 stories that involve composers and in both stories there is a character based on Ludwig van
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: How to translate written shorthand to dialogue I have a character who's going to answer a question with "Either/or." She pronounces it simply either or, but I know some people pronounce the
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: How to punctuate dialogue interrupted by action I am writing a novel and I am trying to find the best write a person being interrupted in speech by something they see. Example is below: Fahad
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: What tense should the dialogues be in a first person singular write-ups? I am writing my novel in first person singular in the past tense as narrated by the protagonist. So obviously the narrative
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: Questions with flat tone in dialogue I'm sure we have all heard people say questions without putting the tone inflection on the end. I am writing a novel and I have a piece of dialogue
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: Which should come first, speech or speaker? Example: I said "Go Away" versus: "Go Away", I said. Which should come first? I am writing medieval fantasy and stumbled across this problem.
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: How to get across pain more effectively in my story? I have been writing a story about a young pianist living with the great composers. After the composers have a meeting, it is decided that
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: Examples of dialog beats and bookism I was wondering if there is a list of ideas on how to add beats to dialog. For example: "Listen to me!", John said excitedly. "We can sell all these
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: Can I mix one character's dialogue with another's POV in the same paragraph? I'm struggling trying to write a scene (fiction novel). I want to know if it would be confusing to write it this
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: Intentionally misspelling words in dialogue I have a piece of dialogue which sounds great in my head, and the way the character says it is important, but it never looks right when I type it
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: Is a new paragraph line needed in dialogue when a character responds with actions? For example: "Move!" I immediately side stepped him. OR "Move!" I immediately side stepped him. I know a
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: What are the rules for punctuating a conversation? Are there hard and fast rules for characters speaking to each other? As far as quotations, or without them? Are they hinged inside a paragraph
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: Recounting events in dialogue In my story, the MC goes through a number of events with a common theme, each told in separate scenes. At the end of the story, he tells a friend about the
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: How do you use the interjection for snorting? How do you use the interjection for snorting? I was told that "snort" is an onomatopoeia, but I disagree. "Haha" and "Heh heh" would be onomatopoeia,
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: Should you only use colons and full stops in dialogues? Should you only use colons and full stops in dialogues? I thought about using a semi-colon in one of my dialogues, but I had second
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: Alternatives to develop relationships without dialogue I have to come up with an idea (this is an assignment) for a story between 1 or 2 characters without dialogue and with a length of 90
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: Switching languages within dialogue I'm writing a story which requires frequent switching between languages, sometimes in the same sentence. I thought about writing the foreign language in italics,
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: Is there a better way to introduce acronyms through a dialogue? Is there a better way to introduce acronyms through a dialogue? One way of doing it, is to mention what the acronym stands for
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: How do we know if a dialogue sounds unnatural without asking for feedback? I wrote a dialogue, but I am not sure if it sounds natural. I try to keep dialogue super simple so that it doesn't
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: Using font to highlight a god's speech in dialogue At one point in my story, the characters are addressed by a god. In the ensuing dialogue, this god has a more archaic way of speaking, but
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: How do we distinguish how a character pronounces a word and how it is spelled in a dialogue? How do we distinguish how a character pronounces a word and how it is spelled in a dialogue?
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: My scenes seem too fast I’m having issues ‘cause while I’m in the process of writing I think my style has enough length to it, but when I go back and read my work it feels extremely
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: How to deal with foreign language in dialogue? I'm writing a story about a little girl who got bit by an unknown snake species and is being treated for it. Out of the 3 snakebite victims,
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: Literate Cherokee and English dialogue east of the Mississippi in the 1860s with a nineteenth century narrator It is my understanding that the Cherokee, prior to the Trail of Tears were bilingual,
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: Modernized dialogue in fantasy - stylistically untrue or clever genre subversion? I find myself using words like "kiddo", "bullshit" and "badass" in the more comedic side of dialogue/thoughts in
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: Formatting a conversation In a novel, how would one best represent a recorded conversation between two people played back to a larger audience? The normal rules apply regarding quotation marks
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: Is it acceptable to punctuate and capitalize a dialogue tag like a separate sentence? When a piece of writing has a quoted sentence followed by a dialogue tag, the sentence is usually ended
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: Can we use other things than single-word verbs in our dialog tags? "Albert, you're already drunk! Stop it!" she implored him. "Nah, if I stop drinking, I won't have an excuse to
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: Multiple lines of dialogue and action from a single character I am in the middle of writing a scene between two characters, a cello player, Lisa and her friend from college, Jack. Lisa has
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: Technical term for written dialogue that mimics the speaker's "sound"? I'm wondering if there's a technical writing term for when an author uses purposefully misspelled words to mimic the sound
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: What's the proper way of indicating that a car has reached its destination during a dialogue? What's the proper way of indicating that a car has reached its destination during a dialogue? For
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: In a script how can I signal who's winning the argument? Arguments, discussions, disagreements In my script I have a lot of "arguments" – loose definition: long discussions where characters
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: Can we have too many dialogue tags and follow up actions? Can we have too many dialogue tags and follow up actions? I am trying to think of a situation where it might make sense to describe
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: Do we have to introduce the character's name before using their names in a dialogue tag? Do we have to introduce the character's name before using their names in a dialogue tag? I am wondering
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: Has anyone ever written a novel or short story composed of only dialogue? The participants describe everything needed for the story to continue, within the conversation. The environment, the emotions,
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: Developing a dialogue that unexpectedly leads to strong feelings between two strangers A short story I'm writing involves a stage in which the male protagonist talks to a stranger with the intent
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: How would you write the dialogues of two characters talking in a chat room? How would you write do the dialogues of two characters talking in a chat room? I am seriously wondering about the
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: Using â€as†after dialogue tags Should a comma be used after a dialogue tag and before the word â€asâ€. For example: â€I don’t like this at all, †he said, as the door closed
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: Should you avoid redundant information after dialogue? Should we avoid repeating redundant information after a dialogue and is there a way around this? Sometimes, you feel prompted to write the
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