DIALOGUE AND CHARACTERIZATION FROM REAL LIFE
by Jackie KingRealistic dialogue with clear attributions makes the characters in your story come alive. Natural sounding dialogue helps distinguish one character from another.
The death knell for a writer:Have you ever been reading, and suddenly wondered which character is speaking? I have, and the experience frustrates me. I'm forced to stop reading and count quotation marks backward to the last attribution, then count forward to learn who’s talking. I’m annoyed right out of the story....
The death knell for a writer:Have you ever been reading, and suddenly wondered which character is speaking? I have, and the experience frustrates me. I'm forced to stop reading and count quotation marks backward to the last attribution, then count forward to learn who’s talking. I’m annoyed right out of the story....
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