Dialogue – Write Well, Write To Sell

You don’t say: More thoughts on dialogue tags

03/29/2021 Write Well, Write To Sell 409 Views 0 Comments bad writing habits, good writing techniques, rick taubold, Use of "said" in dialogue tags, writing advice

From Rick: In my 3/8/2021 post I talked about overusing “said” in dialogue tags, and in the second sentence of that post I said, “I want to make it clear that I AM NOT ADVOCATING REPLACING “SAID” WITH OTHER WORDS

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Overusing “said” in dialogue tags

03/08/2021 Write Well, Write To Sell 397 Views 0 Comments bad writing habits, editing tips, rick taubold, unnecessary dialogue tags, Use of "said" in dialogue tags

From Rick: Before any of you stomp on me for the title of this post, I want to make it clear that I AM NOT ADVOCATING REPLACING “SAID” WITH OTHER WORDS as a matter of course. The purpose of this

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Tips for writing realistic dialogue

06/29/202006/29/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 387 Views 0 Comments dialect, dialogue tips, good writing techniques, novel writing, on-the-nose writing, rick taubold, use pronouns instead of names, using contractions in dialogue

From Rick: Why is dialog important? In the past I’ve done several posts on dialogue, and you can find them under DIALOGUE in the categories list. There are five narrative modes in fiction (Description, Exposition, Dialogue, Thoughts, Action), and of

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Never open with dialogue?

08/21/201708/22/2017 Write Well, Write To Sell 474 Views dialog basics, good writing techniques, opening with dialog, rick taubold, story openings

NOTE: There will be no post next week because I’ll be out of town in Las Vegas doing a couple of booksignings with my “Mosaic” co-author Chris Keaton. If any of you live in the Las Vegas area, stop by

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Dialog vs. correct grammar

02/29/201603/08/2016 Write Well, Write To Sell 405 Views 0 Comments bad wriitng habits, good writing habits, grammar in dialog, rick taubold, writing believable dialog

From Rick: I received a comment on last week’s post by Kellee regarding where to draw the line between correct grammar in our writing versus how our characters talk. As the commenter noted, Mark Twain often used idiosyncratic dialog. Twain

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Writing great dialog–Part 6: dialog tag abuse

12/08/201412/09/2014 Write Well, Write To Sell 448 Views 0 Comments dialog basics, good writing techniques, novel writing, rick taubold, show don't tell, writing good dialog

From Rick: I know, I know. I’m doing dialog posts with astonishing slowness even for me, but I’ll get to the end of them one of these weeks… or months… or years. This particular post in the series began with

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Writing great dialog–Part 5: dialog basics

06/09/2014 Write Well, Write To Sell 421 Views 0 Comments crafting good dialog, dialog basics, fiction writing, good writing techniques, rick taubold, writing good dialog

From Rick: It’s been over a year since I wrote Part 4 of this series. You can see and read parts 1-4 simply by clicking on DIALOG in the categories on the left of the blog. In this installment, I

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Writing great dialog–Part 4: proper dialog formatting

05/13/201303/13/2014 Write Well, Write To Sell 433 Views 0 Comments crafting good dialog, dialog basics, dialog tag attributes, dialog tags, good writing techniques, punctuating dialog, punctuation, rick taubold, writing good dialog

From Rick: In this post, I’m going to cover formatting dialog, which some new writers get wrong. For purposes of this blog, I’ll assume the American English style of formatting, that is, double quote marks, where British English may use

Dialogue Editing

Writing great dialog–Part 3: tags & attributes

04/29/201301/05/2014 Write Well, Write To Sell 410 Views 0 Comments dialog tag attributes, dialog tags, editing tips, fiction writing, good writing, good writing techniques, rick taubold, show don't tell, speech tags

From Rick: In Part 2 of this series I said I was going to cover slang and dialect this time. Well, I decided to move that to a later post, primarily because I want to do more research on that.

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Writing great dialog–Part 2

04/15/201309/24/2014 Write Well, Write To Sell 411 Views 0 Comments crafting good dialog, dialog, dialog basics, fiction writing, good writing, good writing techniques, novel writing, rick taubold, show don't tell, writing good dialog

From Rick: In this part, I’m going discuss defining character with dialog. Many new authors don’t grasp this starting out, and they end up having all their characters talk alike. We’ve all read novels where it was difficult to keep

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