Don’t Be Chunky – Put Your Dialogue in Paragraphs
carriejonesbooks It’s a super quick writing tip again today. Ready? When you’re writing dialogue, make every new speaker a new paragraph. If you’re writing kids books? You might as well just…
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Bomb in Your Bum and How to Punctuate Dialogue Part Three
This is it! Our final installment in how to punctuate dialogue like a boss And we’re talking about questions and quotations in dialogue because why not fry our brains a…
Weird Hitchhiking Stories and How to Punctuate Dialogue
In last week’s podcast we started to talk about how to punctuate dialogue because we’re sexy like that. And we’re continuing that discussion this week. A great source of how…
Make Dialogue Your BFF
Dialogue and voice both do some really important things in your story. Provide context – You can provide some pretty awesome information via dialogue and idiosyncratic character voice. Show the…
Realistic Dialogue and Halloween Parties for Fourteen Year Olds
One of my favorite criticisms is when people say to writers, “Your dialogue is not realistic.” The reason this cracks me up is because have you ever really listened to…