: Re: Action/dialogue tags: What's the right amount? Someone who reviewed my novel said that he "wanted to see more facial features/expressions and body language". So I figured I wasn't using enough

@Odierno164

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Like was said above:

You are the one who must know when to join more action/dialogue;
Not every comment of beta readers must be implemented in your book.

But, the comment was quite interesting. And your change quite better:

You are showing, not telling how mom is;
You add more voice to the character.

But here it is another but: You can't use this in every piece of dialogue, otherwise makes the reading too heavy.

Try use it in moments of tension and climax;
Don't write "boring" dialogue like: "How are you doing?" "Well, and you?"

But in this piece of dialogue you show that you don't do that, what is good.

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