: Re: 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

@Sarah872

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Change the tags around if you can, and whenever possible just drop them. After a while, 'he said X and she said Y' scenes get rather boring. If there's just 2 people, you can do a dialogue tag in the beginning to set up who is talking, and then you don't need tags until another person enters the conversation.
One other thing you can use to avoid tags is their personality. If you have a no-nonsense person and comic relief in the same conversation with your MC, you can probably avoid dialogue tags as the comic relief will be making jokes while the other counters with logic and 'I don't get it'. If the readers know the characters enough, then they will understand who said what and you can lose the dialogue tags.

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