: Re: How do we handle pauses in a dialogue? How do we handle pauses in a dialogue? Let's say that character A speaks and then after a pause character A speaks again. How should we separate the

Amadeus's solution is a good one, but if you really want to keep these sentences within dialogue, without filling the gaps with anything else, you can also use ellipses to indicate pauses within speech. This is especially often used in phone conversations where the reader is only given one side of the conversation:

"Hello? ... No, it was a bug caused by legacy software. Any other question? ... No? OK, see you on Thursday. ... Bye."

This isn't exactly your situation, as the "..." doesn't represent a moment when someone else is talking but rather a moment when nobody is talking. But the solution can still work pretty well for you too:

"Was the computer software hacked?"
"No, it was a bug caused by legacy software. Any other question? ... No? OK, see you on Thursday."
"Bye."

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