Writing for Children

The Big Effect of Dialogue Attribution | Writing for Children 183


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COMBATING THE BORING SPEECH TAG

Dialogue is the favorite part of story writing for many authors. In dialogue writing, the author is able to give voice to the people the author created. Tag we're going to dig into the bits that tag along with the dialogue: speech tags and narrative action. How important is that? And how varied? We'll be reading through examples so be sure to download this week's show notes here, so you can see the examples as you apply these techniques to your own work.

 

 

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