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Writing Tip 180: Dialogue Tags – 3 Tips

We talk to people all the time. We listen and interact, because that’s what people do. Then why is it that writing dialogue can be so tricky?

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And then, he said, “I’ll show you whose head is in the clouds.”

I’ve discussed the power of using dialogue to differentiate characters and not over-using character names, but today, let’s just focus on dialogue tags, the “he said,” “she said,” or similar phrases surrounding a character’s spoken words.More