: Re: How do I vary my dialogue? For me, dialogue usually goes like "quote" she said, doing something. I don't like it, and doing that for every time someone speaks is boring. So how do I add

@Shelton455

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It looks like you're already paying attention to your sentence structures. You can easily vary those:

"Blah blah," he said, doing something.
She did something else. "Blah blah."
"Blah blah blah."
"Blah," she said, "blah." She did another thing.

A couple other ways to keep your dialog from being boring:
Readers don't need to hear the entire conversation, from "Hello" to "Goodbye." You can place your characters in a setting and tell us what they're talking about, then introduce just the vital dialog, even if it's just a single line or two.
And only use dialog tags ("he said") when necessary. Their purpose is to tell us who's speaking when it's not otherwise obvious. So, when there are only two characters, you need less of them; when more, you need more.

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